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"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."
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"There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation."
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"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."
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"There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods."
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"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
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"A mask of gold hides all deformities."
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"Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse."
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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
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"In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods."
Time
"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."
Gold
"A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money."
Money
"In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed."
Economy
"The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined."
Finance
"As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity."
Economy
"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods."
Gold
"Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production."
Agriculture
"The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state."
Society
"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated."
Food
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