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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
"You don't need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth " anything extra. You don't need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily."
"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."
"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."
"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
"I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world."
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"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart."
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers."
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