Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction, — a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.
¶ Walden, ch. 18 (1854)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
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