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“I have no doubt that time discriminates between the good and the bad; and when at last I shall plant, I shall be less likely to be disappointed.
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From Where I Lived, and What I Lived For of Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Read the surrounding argument as well as the excerpt; its historical language and philosophical assumptions shape its meaning.
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Source: Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience , Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
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View reference ↗From Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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