I’ve spent little snippets of time over the past almost two (!) years reading War and Peace in small segments from DailyLit.
Imagine my surprise today when I came across this bit of frugality wisdom from Leo Tolstoy:
Life was cheaper because it was circumscribed: that most expensive luxury, the kind of life that can be changed at any moment, was no longer his nor did he wish for it. He felt that his way of life had now been settled once for all till death and that to change it was not in his power, and so that way of life proved economical.
I’m not going to recommend not changing one’s way of life till death, but otherwise, I think Tolstoy is right. What do you think?
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