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Quotation by Henry David Thoreau
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The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, February 12, 1843, to Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 56, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
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