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By Henry David Thoreau
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
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- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 · Economy, p. 8
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- Internet Archive (Boston Public Library scan of the Ticknor and Fields edition)
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From the chapter "Economy" of Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). This is the text of the first edition.