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Quotation from Walden by Henry David Thoreau

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

Henry David Thoreau (spoken by Thoreau)

Walden, Visitors (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Henry David Thoreau

The opening of the chapter on company, answering readers who assumed the hermit of the pond had none.

Citation: "I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." — Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Visitors (Project Gutenberg text). (id walden-q4)

Portrait: Walden Thoreau, Ticknor and Fields (publisher), Public domain.

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