“You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have …”

“You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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Title: Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau
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Last letter, to Myron Benton (March 31, 1862) [http://www.walden.org/Institute/thoreau/writings/correspondence/1862_03_21_Benton.htm]

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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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