know mankind suffering want gold. seen a little it. know malleable, ma — Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

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