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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."

"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."

"As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues."

"Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was."

"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."
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"No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer."

"The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains."

"So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out."

"If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock."

"One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care."

"It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon."

"And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc."

"Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together."

"Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare."
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