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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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
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