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Henry David Thoreau
Quote from Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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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Quote from Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle
I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
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Quote from Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..
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