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The cost of a thing is the amount of life that has to be exchanged for it, now or in the long run

Drawn from what Henry David Thoreau said

On the topicWhat makes a good life?under our view: Wanting less and living simply make a person richer than earning more

What Henry David Thoreau actually said

  1. Henry David Thoreau American philosopher and writer (1817 to 1862)
    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.

    Where this was said

    ↗Walden (1854)gutenberg.org

    c. 1854

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