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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial

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Henry David Thoreau
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Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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