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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover-that not lived I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to to rout all thaI was not life, 10 cut broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, reduce it to its lowest terms, and, it it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be to give a true account of it in my next excursion For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it - Thoreau from Walden Bob Heer 200