Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
Source: Walden
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Eugene V. Debs
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