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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 Walden · 1849

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“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“For our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

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Henry David Thoreau · 1849
Walden

An account of simple living at Walden Pond that examines self-reliance, nature, material needs, society, work, and deliberate living.

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