"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, Quantity, Value

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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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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current."

Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist

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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read."

Jonathan Carroll, American Author

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"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."

Sammy Davis, Jr., American Entertainer

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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."

Tim Cahill, Australian Athlete

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"There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold."

Coleman Young, American Politician

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"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."

Jesse Owens, American Athlete

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"Gold all is not that doth golden seem."

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

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"Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration."

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"If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn."

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"If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it."

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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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"If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them."

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"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."

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"The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state."

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"During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained."

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"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."

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"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."

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