...esoteric literature. What does it show about his own estimate of himself. Of poetry born of books. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. Thoreau. Qualifications i) solitariness 2) prophetic insight 3)...

...things, which we are taking west with us, invented for the ladies of the harem and the ef3, 4 feminate natives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should...velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the 5 fancy car of an excursion train and breathe...

...and a hundred other oriental things, which we are taking west with us, invented for the ladies of the harem and the effeminate natives of the Celestial...velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe...

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...tourist crowds. I've been an admirer of Henry David Thoreau ever since I read his words in Walden: "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." It's my nature to want a solitary stream experience, and I think the vast majority of other anglers...

...incredibly little trouble" to obtain the necessities, and that he was happier without the superfluities. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." He refused a lady's offer of a doormat, and wiped his feet on the grass, because "it is best to avoid...

...it is necessary to get away from the pinball game of life once in a while. Control your own destiny. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion" —Thoreau Debt, stress, overload, and media suffocate us. The disease of busyness has crippled us...

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...and helped build my confidence. Howie Long, football player ana sports commentator Footbail Season I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher ana poet Thoreau lived...

...Thoreau took to the woods and built a crude hut along the edge of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion," Thoreau wrote in Walden. He found his new life of isolation to be quite pleasing. "I have, as it were,...