Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks… — Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Walden · 1854
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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.
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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.