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“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enter…” — Henry David Thoreau

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Author • American
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