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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:1161
AUTHOR:Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)
QUOTATION:Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
ATTRIBUTION:HENRY DAVID THOREAU, journal entry, April 11, 1852.—The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals, ed. Odell Shepard, p. 126 (1927).
SUBJECTS:Man
 
 
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