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Texting With My Teenager: Boy For Hire

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.”
Henry David Thoreau 



Heee-Yeah! – Riiiiight!
Perhaps ol’ Henry spent a little too much time at the pond?


Kinda funny that Nathaniel Hawthorne said this about Thoreau: “He has repudiated all regular modes of getting a living, and seems inclined to lead a sort of Indian life among civilized men- an Indian life, I mean, as respects the absence of any systematic effort for a livelihood”.




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  1. Thanks for stopping by my blog today and leaving such a nice comment. I love this post! Hawthorne is one of my favorites.
    Sandy

  2. I just learned that some parents in my ward pay their kids to go to church….I bet my kids feel really cheated! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not judging….I just found it interesting….

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