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Henry David Thoreau: He is the...

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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, (Friday), 1849.
-- 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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