Quotes of Henry David Thoreau

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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

- Henry David Thoreau

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- William Shakespeare

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