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Walden: On Simplicity

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Walden: On Simplicity

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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

— Henry David Thoreau

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