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Please explain the following quote from Thoreau's "Walden" -- "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."
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In this quote from "Walden," Henry David Thoreau is giving his advice about how to live one's life.
The basic idea of this quote )and the lines that come before it) is that one must live...
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If you read the paragraph the quote was taken from, it's all there:
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see...
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