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I've gotten a few comments about the Walden One Podcast, the first Walden Podcast.

Many people liked it and wanted more. So today here is the second part

of Thoreau's Walden. This is another section from his book. Let's get started.

As for clothing to come at once to the Let's get started.

As for clothing to come at once to the practical part of the question,

perhaps we are led more often by the love of novelty

and regard for the opinions of men in procuring it than by a true utility.

Let him who has work to do recollect that the object of clothing is,

first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly secondly in this state of society to covered

nakedness and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be

accomplished without adding to his wardrobe.

Kings and Queens who wear a suit but once, though made by some tailor or dressmaker to their

majesties, cannot know the comfort of wearing a suit that fits.

They are no better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on.

No man ever stood the lower, in my estimation, for having a patch in his clothes clothes yet I am sure that there is greater

anxiety commonly to have fashionable or at least clean and unpatch clothes than to have a

sound conscience. But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice is pride.

I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this.

Who could wear a patch or two extra seams only over the knee?

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