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When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived
alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had
built myself, or the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts,
and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two
years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life
again. \footnote{Thoreau started writing the manuscript in 1846.}
\par

\input ../excerpts/walden1.tex

I would fain say something, no so much concerning the Chinese and
Sandwich Islanders \footnote{Hawaiians} 
\input ../excerpts/walden2.tex

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