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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
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This page presents the quote "However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.". Author of this quote is Henry David Thoreau. This quote is about mean, courage, life, names, life is, hard,.