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Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils to practice on. I thought that they might as well hang at once all who need to go through such exercises in so new a country, where there is nothing to hinder their living an outdoor life. Better omit Blair, and take the air. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “Chesuncook” (1858) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 98, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

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