Henry David Thoreau

On Earning a Living

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.

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