I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. (Henry David Thoreau)

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

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