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I do not wish to expiate , but to live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than that it should be glittering and unsteady .
I do not wish to expiate , but to live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than that it should be glittering and unsteady .
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately , to front only the essential facts of life , and see if I could not learn what it had to teach , and not , when I came to die , discover that I had not lived .
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately , to front only the essential facts of life , and see if I could not learn what it had to teach , and not , when I came to die , discover that I had not lived .
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1860 , 1881-1882 I Saw in Louisiana a Live - oak Growing I saw in Louisiana a live - oak growing , All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches , Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green ...
1860 , 1881-1882 I Saw in Louisiana a Live - oak Growing I saw in Louisiana a live - oak growing , All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches , Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green ...
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WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 21 |
EDWARD TAYLOR 1645?1729 | 35 |
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