Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Count no more than ten

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 two or three, and not a hundred or thousand; instead of a million count a half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-namil.

- Henry David Thoreau

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