To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Wallace Stegner
To have so little, and it of so little value,...
To have so little, and it of so little value,...
To have so little, and it of so little value,...
To have so little, and it of so little value,...
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When you don’t have much in the world but what you do have is of great value, you are free in a way that is difficult for most people to understand. The saying “to have so little, and it of so little value” is used to describe what freedom really is.

Source: All The Little Live Things

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