The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Found at Walden.org
Often misquoted as “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), Wikipedia

1800s · American · b. 1817 · balance · commerce · Concord · happiness · life · Massachusetts · money · Philosopher · Poet · Transcendentalism · U.S. · Writer

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