  "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."    |      Quote by:  | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist  |  
Source:  | Walden (1854)  |  
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