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Quote from Henry David Thoreau,


"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."


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Henry David Thoreau (more quotes by Henry David Thoreau or books by/about Henry David Thoreau)


(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist

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Apathy, Desperation

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