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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another.” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“Labor is like any other commodity in the market—increase the demand for it and you increase the price of it. Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand...” Abraham Lincoln, “State of the Union Address” - 1 December 1862

“Fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.” Karl Marx, “Das Kapital” - 1867

“We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power.” George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address” - 29 January 2002

“On the contrary, Graham held that price is what you pay and value is what you get.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“Let every nation know... whether it wishes us well or ill... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 1961

“He said the worth of things can’t be measured by what they cost but by what they cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high and that there are some things that will never wear out.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the price.” Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” - 1651

“a sentimentalist . . . is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1893

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations” - 1776

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