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Friends and contemporaries should supply only the name and date, and leave it to posterity to write the epitaph. - Henry David Thoreau
Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 178, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

Categories: Author, Epitaphs, Graves, Naturalist, Philosopher

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