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Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau

Autobiography and memoir

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau
Walden · 1854
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Topic
Simple livingLiving wellLife
Statement type
Advice
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Time
1854
Person
Henry David Thoreau
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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