“The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compensation (Primary source)
Emerson explores the law of compensation, suggesting that every action (cause) has a corresponding reaction (effect), meaning that there is no free lunch, but we get what we give.
“The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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