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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?


Alfred de Vigny

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ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
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...
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