The Thoreau feel that the people who serve the state have the same worth as dogs or horses and that they should receive no more respect then a man of straw or a lump of dirt, so these people feel that working for the state rarely make any moral distinctions,and it also says in the paragraph that they are likely to serve the devil. So by this article we can clearly see that they are apposed to any form of serving the state.
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Answer:
The sentence should be:
He wanted to go for a swim; we drove to the Swimming Club and sat around the park 'till he was in the pool.
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Winter because my dogs have no choice but to cuddle with me to warm up ;]