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By Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 · Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, p. 98
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- Internet Archive (Boston Public Library scan of the Ticknor and Fields edition)
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From the chapter "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" of Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). This is the text of the first edition.