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““I am so well satisfied with my present simplicity that I am determined never to depart from it!””

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Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

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During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

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This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

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The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want…

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A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

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Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

William Shakespeare

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By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

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Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,…

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There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

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