"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
-Henry David Thoreau
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"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.“
-Henry David Thoreau
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