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Possessing Utility, Commodities Derive Their Exchangeable Value From Two Sources: From Their Scarcity, And From The Quantity Of Labour Required To Obtain Them.

Neither A State Nor A Bank Ever Have Had Unrestricted Power Of Issuing Paper Money Without Abusing That Power.

Labour, Like All Other Things Which Are Purchased And Sold... Has Its Natural And Its Market Price.

Again Two Manufacturers May Employ The Same Amount Of Fixed, And The Same Amount Of Circulating Capital; But The Durability Of Their Fixed Capitals May Be Very Unequal.

It Is Not By The Absolute Quantity Of Produce Obtained By Either Class, That We Can Correctly Judge Of The Rate Of Profit, Rent, And Wages, But By The Quantity Of Labour Required To Obtain That Produce.