Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Sourced, From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

“The Grizzly and the Gadgets”, The New Yorker (date unknown); Further Fables for Our Time (1956); This statement is derived from one of Henry David Thoreau : The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

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