"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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Source : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.11

David Ricardo

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“Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.”
“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”
“Architecture is politics.”
“The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over, terrorism is defeated, we have to focus on economic development which in the north and east particular, being the areas where the war was fought, development has to proceed at a pace. That people from those parts of the country are leaving seems to suggest a lack of confidence and certainty in the trajectory of this kind of economic development.”
“I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.”
“Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2010). “My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.”
“Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.”

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