“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
As commonly credited to Henry David Thoreau
- Credited to
- Henry David Thoreau
- Actually said by
- Henry David Thoreau
Findings
Editor’s note: this misquote might pass.
The original
“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.”