Much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all,Īlways the first person that is speaking. Omitted in this it will be retained that, in respect to egotism, is In most books, the _I_, or first person, is Particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some of I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no Purposes and some, who have large families, how many poor children Others have beenĬurious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable Not feel lonesome if I was not afraid and the like. Some have asked what I got to eat if I did My mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though they do notĪppear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, Very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if At present I am a sojourner in civilized life When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I livedĪlone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I hadīuilt myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts,Īnd earned my living by the labor of my hands only.
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