Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion of it is already obsolete. There is scarcely any value in the essays on money, and also in the part about the work on catallactics.


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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT
The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, domina...
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT
The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.
MAHOMET II, THE GREAT
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA
The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux...
FREDERICK, THE GREAT (FREDERICK II)
For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
SAINT BASIL (BISHOP OF CAESAREA) ("THE GREAT")
It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized worl...
THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS
Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their c...
THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS