• Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer 1817-1862
  

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1. individuals
2. memorable
3. populate
4. strives
5. there
6. world

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Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world. by : Henry David Thoreau

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