Thomas Paine That Which We Obtain Too Lightly

Thomas Paine in his passage, "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value," embeds the illusion of attachment. Paine explicates the meaning and the importance of a symbol or object by the possession it upholds internally. Humans tend to appreciate a gift when the gift obtains some kind of significance to the person who is receiving.
In Paine's first section of this passage he states, "That which we obtain too easily..." Which serves as an example of how humans receive the offering. Paine provides the example of how humans receive something easily we do not take it into consideration. When we receive something easily and no hard work was put onto it, we tend to forget the hard