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LAW / HISTORY > essayist, poet, naturalist > Henry David Thoreau

The way in...

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The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails . . . beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead.

Source: Journals, 1906, entry for 19 Aug 1851.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.


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