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Henry David Thoreau Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Birthday: July 12

Death: May 6

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Men, House, Empires, Fixture, Salem

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