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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
         

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.


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