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The Dutch painter, Rembrandt, spent the last 30 years on the brink of bankruptcy and died in abject poverty.

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When the writer Thoreau sought "seclusion" at Walden, he was only a mile or so from his parents' house in Concord. 
(His mother came over every Saturday and brought him cookies.)