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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

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Ricardo, David. On Protection to Agriculture. London: John Murray, 1822.

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Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

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Ricardo, David. On Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London: John Murray, 1817.

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Ricardo, David. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Dover Publications, 2004.

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Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

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Ricardo, David. On Protection to Agriculture. London: John Murray, 1822.

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Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

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Ricardo, David. On Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London: John Murray, 1817.

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Ricardo, David. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Dover Publications, 2004.

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