...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, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
--Thoreau
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