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Actual person I knew growing up (I've changed her name).

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Thoreau

We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still. - Thoreau

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thoreau

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. - Thoreau

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. - Thoreau

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. - Thoreau

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. - Thoreau