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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
         

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.


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