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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.
         

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.


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