📔 Walden

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As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; […] But the rich man—not to make any invidious comparison—is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.