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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...lobe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote 8 Walden themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live, — that is, ke... ...hat line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men’s, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable f... ...fully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines bridged and passable at all season... ...quire strict business habits; they are indispens able to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the... ...ts, prospects of war and peace every where, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civilization, — taking advantage of the results of all ex plor... ...a good place for business, not solely on account of the railroad and the ice trade; it offers advantages which it may not be good policy to divulge; i... ...ls W HEN THE PONDS were firmly frozen, they afforded not only new and shorter routes to many points, but new views from their surfaces of the familiar ...

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