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Thoreau, Henry David
     
Thoreau, Henry David
(1817-62) a US writer and philosopher whose best-known works are Walden, or Life in the Woods, in which he describes his simple life in the countryside, and Civil Disobedience, an essay on refusing to obey unfair laws, which influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King
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