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.

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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 thumb nail.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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