The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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Every yes costs something. The real question is whether the trade is worthy of your life.
Money is only one measure. Attention, energy, and time are often the deeper currencies, and those are much harder to replace once spent carelessly.
Thoreau keeps forcing value back to essentials. This line survives because it exposes hidden costs that modern busyness prefers to keep blurred.
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