In "life without principle," thoreau writes, "if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery." what does this statement mean?
a. if youdon't want much, you don't have to spend as much time being miserable working to get it.
b. work is meaningful only when you think about what you'll be able to do with the money you earn.
c. the more you have, the more you want.
d. slavery was wrong because it meant that some people worked hard to satisfy other people's wants.

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

How is time represented in “persistence of memory” by salvador dali? what effect does dali achieve? can writers use similar techniques in written works? how would writers achieve this with words?

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "