I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society… — Henry David Thoreau
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.
Walden · 1854
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Thoreau, Henry David. "Visitors." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.
Original citation
Thoreau, Henry David. "Visitors." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
