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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Henry David Thoreau on cost
“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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