Chapter 1: Economy
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.Read in Books4Free →
Lives of Quiet Desperation
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's diagnosis of modern industrial life as a soul-deadening trap that men endure silently.
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