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Life is worth living deliberately, facing only its essential facts, so as not to find at death that one has not lived

Drawn from what Henry David Thoreau said

On the topicWhat makes a good life?under our view: Wanting less and living simply make a person richer than earning more

What Henry David Thoreau actually said

  1. Henry David Thoreau American philosopher and writer (1817 to 1862)
    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 this was said

    ↗Walden (1854)gutenberg.org

    c. 1854

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