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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.
         

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.


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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



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