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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
         

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.


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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



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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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