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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a... ...h, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly that “those in New Netherland, and especially in N... ...same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanit... ...l the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanity, assi... ...leav ing the foe to select among his own members; and so there were three united for life, as if a new kind of attraction had been invented which put... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants.... ... the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that become... ...s said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises a...

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