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“You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.”

Men Needs Hard Life Is Cheap Things

Book:Islands in the stream

Source: Islands in the stream

“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.”

People Ifs May Long Running Certain Business Class Amount Higher Cost Approach Add Believer Long Runs Cheap Things

Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

“Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.”

Heart Art Different Happiness Traffic Cheap Things

Book:Traits of American Life

Source: Traits of American Life

“I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.”

Men Want May Doe Age Process Produce He Man Shapes Demand Pity Old Age Farms Factories Coats Wages Incidents Margins Garments Living Wage Dowry Cheap Things

Author:Benjamin Harrison

“Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.”

Life Hands Life Is Values Left Rooms Thousand Strongest Begging Spills Cheap Things

Book:The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)

“At the worst possible moment, when your fund is down because cheap things have gotten cheaper, you need to have capital, to have clients who will actually love the phone call and-most of the time, if not all the time-add, rather than subtract, capital.”

Ifs Needs Moments Worst Add Phones Fund Clients Cheaper Phone Calls Cheap Things

Author:Seth Klarman

“Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.”

Men Hard Fighting Common Mankind Victory Weapons Soldier Nightmare Spokes Legends Cheap Things

Book:Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.”

Ifs Giving Long Hard Enough Hate Loses Creative Fire Risk Giving Up Sight Good Things Contempt Better Than You Cheap Things

Book:The Essential Willa Cather Collection

Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection