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The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

David Ricardo

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
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Commodity exchange Increase Production Value
The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.
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Greatness Money Profit Rate Value
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.
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Cultivate Fertile Land Population Requirement Situation
For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.
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Capital Pay Portion Price
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
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Profit Wage Way Yourself
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
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Class Commercial Commodity Degree Demand Greatness Home
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
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Natural Portion Price
The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
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Class Community Interest
Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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Commerce Independent Transaction
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
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Contribute Country Happiness Prosperity
The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
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Demand Quantity Value
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.
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Consumer Export Foreign Home Marketing Permanent Price
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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Capital Class Commercial Encouragement Prosperity
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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Farmer Live Manufacture Profit Wage
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
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Commodity Possession Require Source Value
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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Essential exchange Measurement Value

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