A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Walden · 1854
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Provenance
Current citation
Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.
Original citation
Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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