Library/Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Visitors

Thoreau's accounts of various guests to his cabin and his observations about human society and character.

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Society and the three-chair arrangement
Thoreau opens the Visitors chapter by asserting that he is no hermit, then describes his famous arrangement of three chairs — one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society — as a measure of his social life at the cabin.

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