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Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

David Ricardo

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
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Contribute Country Happiness Prosperity
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
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
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
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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Belong Ordinary Production Profit Rate Togetherness 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 a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
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Beer Food Price Raise Tax
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.
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Clever Different Profit Stupidity
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
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
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Profit Wage Way Yourself
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
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
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
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Absolute Production Quantity Rate Requirement
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
Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.
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Commodity Fall Machine Reality Value
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
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Abuse Bank Power State

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