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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

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

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.