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“Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this worldand never will.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as good as his word. According to his account, he had acquired such knowledge in his youth from a wise old Indian with whom he associated, and he lamented that the present generation of Indians had lost a great deal.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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