Ennui Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.” quote by Henry David Thoreau — Download Open image

“If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.”

Henry David Thoreau

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