Thoreau stated, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole genuine meanness of it, and publish it meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion" (Daugherty 15). ... I do not care to trace the course of my dollar. If I could till it buys a man, or a muske...

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This was mainly composed of recollections of the writer and originally wrote in the form of four notebooks, among which two were published at that time but the third and forth had been rediscovered and then published. ... In an Epitaph on her mother, she wrote: "A loving mother and obedient wife,/ A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor,/ whom oft she fed, and clothed with her store,/" In epitaph on her father, she stated: "That was both pious, just and wise,/ To truth a shield, to right a wall,/ To sectaries a whip and maul,/ A magazine of history,/ A p...

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