Famous Quotes by Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods

Below are famous quotes by Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods - US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862).

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

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