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I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.

Henry David Thoreau
Blood, Flesh, Helping
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.