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In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.


Alfred Griswold

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ALFRED MARSHALL Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN