The Anatomy of Wealth Or the ABC of Every Day LifeSimpkin, 1880 - 135 pages |
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Page 33 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Page 44 - After a certain, and not very advanced, stage in the progress of agriculture, it is the law of production from the land, that in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge...
Page 33 - When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
Page 35 - Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared.
Page 3 - IF all the world were apple-pie, And all the sea were ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we have to drink?
Page 34 - The keystone of the whole Theory of Exchange, and of the principal problems of Economics, lies in this proposition: — The 'ratio of exchange of any two commodities will be the reciprocal of the ratio of the final degrees of utility of the quantities of commodity available for consumption after the exchange is completed.
Page 50 - But this censure will be mitigated, when it is seriously considered that money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and that the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Page 22 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Page 117 - What care ye now, if winter's storm Sweep ruthless o'er each silken form ? Christ's blessing at your heart is warm, Ye fear no vexing mood. Alas ! of thousand bosoms kind, That daily court you and caress, How few the happy secret find Of your calm loveliness ! ' Live for to-day ! to-morrow's light To-morrow's cares shall bring to sight, Go sleep like closing flowers at night, And Heaven thy morn will bless.