Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down. (Henry David Thoreau)

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Henry David Thoreau

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