“Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!”: Apparently Henry David Thoreau said …

Apparently Henry David Thoreau said,
“Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.”
It’s hard to believe that lives could be complicated in Thoreau’s time (1870s I believe?). His statement, however, is ripe for our times and I have a hunch that the mantra of “Simplify. Simplify. [...]