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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
         

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.


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