“Money often costs too much.”
The Conduct of Life, Chapter 3, “Wealth,” p. 107
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"Rumsfeld's Rules" January 12, 1974 http://library.villanova.edu/vbl/bweb/rumsfeldsrules.pdf
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“It costs too much to worship God in public.”
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
Context: Another thing is the magnificence of the churches. The church depends absolutely upon the rich. Poor people feel out of place in such magnificent buildings. They drop into the nearest seat; like poor relations, they sit on the extreme edge of the chair. At the table of Christ they are below the salt. They are constantly humiliated. When subscriptions are asked for they feel ashamed to have their mite compared with the thousands given by the millionaire. The pennies feel ashamed to mingle with the silver in the contribution plate. The result is that most of them avoid the church. It costs too much to worship God in public. Good clothes are necessary, fashionably cut.

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“What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”
Lo pagado con nuestra vida nunca es caro.
Voces (1943)

“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

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British Crane Hire Corporation Ltd v. Ipswich Plant Hire Ltd [1970] 1 All ER 1059.
Judgments
from a letter to John Oliver la Gorce, the Geographic's assistant editor (1923)

“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Source: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 5 : Political Trade-Offs