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The Simple Life

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The Simple Life

Charles Wagner and Mary Louise Hendee

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Complexity is the modern disease, Wagner argued from Paris in 1901, and half of America agreed. The Simple Life pleads for simplicity of thought, speech, needs, and duty against the clutter of getting and spending. Theodore Roosevelt urged the whole country to read it. Less, argued beautifully, long before less became a movement.

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  1. 1THE SIMPLE LIFE
  2. 2Translated from the French by Mary Louise Hendee
  3. 3GROSSET DUNLAP Publishers, New York
  4. 4Copyright, 1901, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS CO.
  5. 5CONTENTS
  6. 6THE SIMPLE LIFE I OUR COMPLEX LIFE
  7. 7II THE ESSENCE OF SIMPLICITY
  8. 8III SIMPLICITY OF THOUGHT
  9. 9IV SIMPLICITY OF SPEECH
  10. 10V SIMPLE DUTY
  11. 11VI SIMPLE NEEDS
  12. 12VII SIMPLE PLEASURES
  13. 13VIII THE MERCENARY SPIRIT AND SIMPLICITY
  14. 14IX NOTORIETY AND THE INGLORIOUS GOOD
  15. 15X THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF THE HOME
  16. 16XI SIMPLE BEAUTY
  17. 17XII PRIDE AND SIMPLICITY IN THE INTERCOURSE OF MEN
  18. 18XIII THE EDUCATION FOR SIMPLICITY

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