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Read this passage from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail."

According to Thoreau in Walden, by what is our life frittered away?

A. money
B. nature
C. simplicity
D. details



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Final answer:

Thoreau emphasizes simplicity as a key to avoiding the wastefulness of details in life.


Explanation:

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau emphasizes that our lives are frittered away by detail. He advocates for simplicity and urges individuals to focus on essential things, living deliberately rather than getting caught up in unnecessary complexities of society.


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