Henry David Thoreau quote: Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

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