The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Mediocrity
Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. Henry David Thoreau
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