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the need of society drives the human porcupines together--only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature
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What signifies the census--this periodical numbering of men--to one who has no friend?
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·April 29, 1851
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the right to be let alone--the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men
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Most of the friends I have seen have turned out the bitterest enemies, or cold, uncomfortable acquaintance.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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There is then no sympathy, but an uneasy craving after it, and a dissatisfaction which pursues you on the way, and in the end probably produces ill-humour.