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Sunday, April 27, 2014
What More Can a Reasonable Man Desire?
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden, chapter 1:
And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet-corn boiled, with the addition of salt?