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“Here while I lie beneath this walnut bough,What care I for the Greeks or for Troy town,If juster battles are enacted nowBetween the ants upon this hummock's crown?”

— Henry David Thoreau

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Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau
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Context

"The Summer Rain", st. 3. The Dial (October 1842) p. 224

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Thoreau, Henry David. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

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