Henry David Thoreau
On Earning a Living
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Henry David Thoreau
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American naturalist, philosopher, poet, member of the Boston Transcendental Club, which advocated social equality and being one with nature.