If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is becaus… — Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David ThoreauAuthor · American · 1817 – 1862

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