• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer 1817-1862
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. extravagance
2. experience
3. convinced
4. depends
5. narrow
6. yarded

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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded. by : Henry David Thoreau

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