Question

Quote from the following passage. Use at least three sets of ellipses and one set of brackets with an addition.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.

—Thoreau, from Walden

Answer 1

"It is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live . . . To be a philosopher is . . . to love wisdom as to live according to it's dictates . . . [a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust]. "

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Answer 2

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts ... but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life.... [In contrast the] success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity ... and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.