No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. (Henry David Thoreau)

No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

Henry David Thoreau

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