Children who play life discern its true law and relations more clearly than men who fail to live it worthily but who think that they are wiser by experience that is by failure.
Henry David Thoreau
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Those who while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
- Henry David Thoreau