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"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
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"Money is made only from time well converted."

"Wealth is as a result of the value of time."

"Everything depends on the wealth of time."

"Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch."
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"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."

"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."

"Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time."

"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."

"Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species."

"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."

"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."

"It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character."
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