People
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau • Walden
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This warns against ventures that demand reinventing your outward appearance rather than genuinely changing who you are. True new beginnings should transform the person undertaking them, not just dress the same person in different, fancier clothing.
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