"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
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Anarchists from the United StatesAbolitionistsUnitarians from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesLeft-libertarians
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March 11, 1856
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Henry David Thoreau
1817 β 1862
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