Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Civil disobedience, Walden
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Civil disobedience, Walden
Walden, Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
1854
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