"If anything ail a man, so that he……" — Henry David Thoreau
"If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world."
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Henry David Thoreau
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