"I know of no more encouraging…" — Henry David Thoreau

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Je ne connais pas de fait plus encourageant que la capacité incontestable de l'homme à élever sa vie par un effort conscient

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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after ”

Henry David Thoreau

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