It was a pleasure and a ...

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau].  He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.