No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself. (Henry David Thoreau)

No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Henry David Thoreau

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