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Leszek Godlewski asked this question about Walden or, Life in the Woods:
I'm bored to hell after enduring the first two chapters (Economy and Where I Lived And What I Lived For). The redundancy of stating the same point in a million different irritates me to no end. Does it get more substantial later?
Tg Read the Concluding Chapter and "Where I lived and what I lived for"

"Love is the wind the tides, the waves the sunshine" Thoreau

"Circle round and roun…moreRead the Concluding Chapter and "Where I lived and what I lived for"

"Love is the wind the tides, the waves the sunshine" Thoreau

"Circle round and round your life as a dog does its masters chase" Thoreau

"Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were changed into men long ago " Thoreau(less)
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by Henry David Thoreau
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