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-- card: 2920 from stack: in
-- bmap block id: 4170
-- flags: 0000
-- background id: 2564
-- name:
-- part contents for background part 1
----- text -----
The Dutch painter, Rembrandt, spent the last 30 years on the brink of bankruptcy and died in abject poverty.
-- part contents for background part 2
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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.)