the Thoreau Log.
28 November 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Annursnack . . .

  The less you get, the happier and the richer you are. The rich man’s son gets cocoanuts, and the poor man’s, pignuts ; but the worst of it is that the former never goes a-cocoanutting, and so he never gets the cream of the Cocoanut as the latter does the cream of the pignut . . .

(Journal, 14:276-278)

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