What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that, practically, I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. (Henry David Thoreau)

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that, practically, I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

Henry David Thoreau

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