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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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Misquotation of a line from Walden cited above, with the addition of a spurious ending. For this and other misattributions, see: The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page

 

Henry David Thoreau

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