Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

Henry David Thoreau

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958 How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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1005 Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
1039 If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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