I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. — Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau : American Author
Born: July 12, 1817
Died: May 6, 1862