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"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."

"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."

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"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."

"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."

"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."

"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."

"Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written."
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