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thoreau
/θəˈɹoʊ/
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What does thoreau mean?
proper noun
- A surname.
- A census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, believed to be named after Henry David Thoreau.
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My little effort to make Thoreau better known in England had one result that I am pleased to think of.
You know that in Concord the latest news, except a remark or two by Thoreau or Emerson, is the Vedas.
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But Thoreau loved other apples than the wild sorts and was obliged to confess that his favorites could not be eaten in-doors.
‘All fables have their morals,’ says Thoreau, ‘but the innocent enjoy the story.’
The Emerson essay rose from three dollars to seventeen, and the Thoreau, being by an author less widely read, and, by his own confession commercially unsuccessful, brought a somewhat higher figure.