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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,

β€” Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau explains his experiment in attending to the essential facts of life.

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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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From Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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