« Some are dinning in our ears that we are Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the best pygmy he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. »
Thoreau, Henry David. « Walden: Conclusion » The Portable Thoreau. 1854. p. 564
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