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Henry David Thoreau
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  • Kelly's favorite book just happens to be Walden by Henry David Thoreau.  (source)
  • Lake Katrine is a small lake in Ulster County, New York, often visited by henry David Thoreau.  (source)
  • In addition to Keats and the Brontes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, Lawrence, Frederic Chopin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Franz Kafka, and Percy Bysshe Shelley form a fair beginning toward a Who's Who of artistic consumptives.  (source)
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  • Even the writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau said so.  (source)
    Henry David Thoreau = U.S. writer best remembered for his book, Walden and his essay Civil Disobedience (1817-1862)
  • To paraphrase Henry David Thoreau, thousands are hacking at the branches of the problem; few are working at the root.  (source)
  • You'll love these authors: Burroughs, Dickens, Kipling, London, Bradbury, Chaucer, Henry David Thoreau. And these: Jane Austen, Arthur Miller, Charlotte Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. D. Salinger.  (source)
  • And when Kennedy speaks about the wonders of the American West, he quotes Henry David Thoreau—a man from Massachusetts who never crossed the Mississippi.  (source)
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862), U.S. philosopher, author, and naturalist When I wake up the following morning, I look around the tiny, low-ceilinged room I'm in, with its bright white walls and dark wood rafters, in confusion.†  (source)
    Henry David Thoreau = U.S. writer best remembered for his book, Walden and his essay Civil Disobedience
  • Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail as a protest against having his taxes used to support the war.†  (source)
  • Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods -- passage highlighted  (source)
    Henry David Thoreau = U.S. writer best remembered for his book, Walden and his essay Civil Disobedience (1817-1862)
  • It's Walden by Henry David Thoreau, which is my brother's girlfriend's favorite book, so I was very excited to read it.  (source)
  • McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statutes of a higher order, that as a latter-day adherent of Henry David Thoreau, he took as gospel the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state.  (source)
  • I don't remember what the valedictorian said except that she quoted Henry David Thoreau instead of a pop song.  (source)
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