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"Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?"

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About Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, naturalist, and philosopher associated with Transcendentalism. He is best known for Walden and Civil Disobedience, works that influenced environmental thought and civil rights movements.

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