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" We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have... "
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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 pages
...between us and our fellow is, that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volumes 41-42

1869 - 1042 pages
...proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly to the post-office. You depend upon it, that the fellow who walks away with the greatest number of...correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while." WILLITTS AND L BT «TRS. JL PATTEESOS. (Concluded.) ,4 LL this while I had only looked at Ara1 '\....
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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - 1879 - 306 pages
...difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperatelv to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the...
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Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 pages
...difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of...
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Essays and Other Writings of Henry Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 324 pages
...difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been oat to tea, and we have not In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 pages
...not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks...correspondence has not heard from himself this long while. I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pages
...difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical ..., Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and wo have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of...
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Miscellanies

Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of...
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