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Lowell had made a few cutting remarks to the effect that "as compared with shanty-life, the tub of Diogenes was preferable, as it had a much sounder bottom," and Hawthorne had written of "the beauties of conspicuous solitude." Thoreau felt that he was attracting too much attention, and that perhaps Hawthorne was right: a recluse who holds receptions is becoming the thing he pretends to despise.
The question is sometimes asked, "How can one eat his cake and keep it too?" but this does not refer to plum-cake. A few years of plum-cake, cold mince-pie and continual wet feet will put the petard under even the stoutest constitution. During his shanty-life Thoreau was imperfectly nourished, and for the victim of malassimilation, tuberculosis hunts and needs no spyglass.
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