Highlights

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.

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for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

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“The soul not being mistress of herself,” says Thseng-tseu, “one looks, and one does not see; one listens, and one does not hear; one eats, and one does not know the savor of food.”

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