Letters: Thoreau’s wisdom
Re “A link to change your life,†Sept. 26
Meghan Daum echoed what Henry David Thoreau expressed more than 150 years ago: “The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.â€
The cornerstone of happiness is a life that celebrates wisdom, virtue, magnanimity, selflessness and the search for truth without ulterior motives. The only love that never grows old is love of honor.
Bruce Fein
Los Angeles
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