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“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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From Where I Lived, and What I Lived For of Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Read the surrounding argument as well as the excerpt; its historical language and philosophical assumptions shape its meaning.
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Source: Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience , Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
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