...not a hundred or a thousand; and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. Instead of three meals a day, eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. We do not need to have commerce or talk through a telegraph. Stay at home and mind your own business....

...chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if...dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. WALDEN JULY 13 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That...

...of simplification. The infamous passage which contains the command 'Simplify, simplify' continues: Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat...dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion ... The nation itself, with all its so called internal improvements, which, by the way, are all external...

...chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if...dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. - Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," 1854 In the savage state, every family owns a shelter...

...chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if...calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. "Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854). Access the innovation, see Fig. 13.2 Where...