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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

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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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Discover Doubt Fluctuation Gold Limitation Powerful Rare Silver Subject
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
Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.
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Capital Equality Fix Man
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
No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.
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Commodity Enjoyment Increase Trade Value
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
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Profit Wage Way Yourself
Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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Commerce Independent Transaction
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
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Earth Original Paid Rent Soil
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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Consumption Errors Greatness Increase
If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
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Evidence Money Rise Value
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.
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Current exchange Money Prevent Variation
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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Essential exchange Measurement Value
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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Farmer Live Manufacture Profit Wage
Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.
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Bank Issue Loan Money Value
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
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Competition Contract Control Freedom Legislature Wage
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.
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Commodity Doubt Increase Money Value

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

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