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

Henry David Thoreau

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969 How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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1017 Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
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