Which quote from Thoreau's Walden is a good example of the transcendentalist ideal of the need to simplifying our lives?
A. Sec 5: Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one
B. Sec 3 : For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about [life] ...
C. Sec 7 :Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes...asks "What's the news?"

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Which quote from Thoreau's Walden is a good example of the transcendentalist ideal of the need to simplifying our lives?
A. Sec 5: Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one
B. Sec 3 : For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about [life] ...
C. Sec 7 :Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes...asks "What's the news?"

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