“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.”
Source: Walden
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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862Related quotes

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