"Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy."

William Gilmore Simms, American Novelist

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"The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."

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