I find【A1】________ wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in【A2】________ , even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I【A3】________ to be alone. I never found the companion that was 【A4】________ companionable as solitude. We are for the most part 【A5】________ lonely when we go abroad among men than when we 【A6】________ in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured 【A7】________ the miles of space that intervene 【A8】________ a man and his fellows. The really diligent 【A9】 ________ in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as 【A10】________ as a derris in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods 【A11】________ day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, 【A12】________ he is employed; but when he comes home at night he 【A13】________ sit down in a room alone, at the mercy 【A14】________ his thoughts, but must be where he can “see the folks,” and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate himself【A15】________ his day's solitude; and hence he wonders【A16】________ the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and “the blues”; 【A17】________ he does not realize that the student, 【A18】________ in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his 【A19】________ , as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a 【A20】 ________ condensed form of it. (from “Solitude ” by H. D. Thoreau)
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