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By Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
- Source
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 · Conclusion, p. 350
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- Internet Archive (Boston Public Library scan of the Ticknor and Fields edition)
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From the chapter "Conclusion" of Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). This is the text of the first edition.