Question

Which TWO of the following quotes best support the answer to Part A?

a. "Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" (Paragraph 2)
b. "Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour" (Paragraph 2)
c. "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry" (Paragraph 3)
d. "Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?'" (Paragraph 3)

Answer 1

The quotes from Paragraph 2, "Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", and from Paragraph 3, "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?", best encapsulate the theme of simplifying life to concentrate on essentials.

Step-by-step explanation:

The two quotes that best support the notion of simplifying life in accordance with the answer to Part A are:

• "Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" (Paragraph 2)
• "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry." (Paragraph 3)

These quotes encapsulate the central idea of streamlining one's life to focus on what is truly essential and to avoid unnecessary complications and distractions that deplete one's vitality. They emphasize the need for simplicity and question the urgency and excess that characterize modern existence.