An idea from Walden

Picture a young farmer who inherited a barn, 100 acres, and the debt on them, and now works every day to keep them. In 1840s Concord, in shops, offices, and fields, most people seemed to live that way. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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