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“Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.” quote by Henry David Thoreau — Download Open image

“Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.”

Henry David Thoreau

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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