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I say, beware of all enterprises that vequire new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to Sit? Uf you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes.

Thoreau.

I do not mean to prescribe rules to strong and valiant natures, who will mind their own affairs whether in heaven or hell, and perchance build more magnificently end spend more lavishly than the richest, without over impoverishing themselves.

Thoreau.