Fighting the Affluenza Epidemic in

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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.”

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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

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“Our life is frittered away by detail.”

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“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

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“We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

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"The penny-post is, commonly, an institution through which you seriously offer offer a man a penny for his thoughts which is so often safely offered in jest."

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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

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“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.”

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.

“I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.”

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

“Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our

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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

My greatest skill in life has been to want but little”

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.” .

“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.”

“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.”

“The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” .

“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.”

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