Fighting the Affluenza Epidemic in America

Justin Kerr

“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. Where I lived what I lived for.” Page 193

“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. Where I lived what I lived for.” Page 193

“I was myself excited somewhat even as if they had been men. The more you think of it, the less the difference.”Page 200

“I was myself excited somewhat even as if they had been men. The more you think of it, the less the difference.”Page 200

“That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”Page 204

“That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”Page 204

“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men.”Page 203

“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men.”Page 203

“I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.”Page 198

“I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.”Page 198

“Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each on is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man.”Page 197

“Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each on is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man.”Page 197

“Our life is frittered away by detail.”Page 196

“Our life is frittered away by detail.”Page 196

“Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are engaged?”Page 195

“Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are engaged?”Page 195

“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 thumbnail.”Page 196

“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 thumbnail.”Page 196

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.” Page 193

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.” Page 193

“If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”Page 204

“If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”Page 204

“I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”Page 193

“I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”Page 193

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