Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is our own scurvy selves. - Henry David Thoreau (Walden; or, Life in the Woods Quotes)

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is our own scurvy selves.

Source:(Ticknor and Fields, ed. 1954), Chapter I. Economy, Page 38
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