The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.225, Graphic Arts Books
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