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As you grow old, guard against the tendency to live more coarsely, to relax in your discipline. Obey your finest instincts. Be fastidious to the extreme of sanity.
As you grow old, guard against the tendency to live more coarsely, to relax in your discipline. Obey your finest instincts. Be fastidious to the extreme of sanity.
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- Henry D. Thoreau
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 274; printed byline: Thoreau; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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