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Solitude

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert.

The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed;

but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can : see the folks, :" and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate himself for his day's solitude;

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