Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. - Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau: "Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon."

Henry David Thoreau's Quotations

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Ambition	Amount	Equal	Good
Hammered	High	Insane	Leave
Manners	Memorable	Memory	Monument
Moon	Nations	Pains	Perpetuate
Piece	Polish	Possessed	Sense
Smooth	Stone	Taken	Themselves

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