Quote
βthe 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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What does this quotation mean?
Thoreau measures expense in time and life rather than money alone.
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Source: Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience , Economy
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