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Henry David Thoreau

Posted May 24th, 2005 by Taran

I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us. We need to be provoked

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), Chapter 3 : Reading

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