Quote #39
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
More from Henry David Thoreau
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- Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
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- That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the…