"It is impossible to pursue this nonsense any further."

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"Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?"

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"It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it."

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"The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity."

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"Money is itself a product of circulation."

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"Something that is merely negative creates nothing."

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"The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value."

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"Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit."

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"Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary."

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"An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital."

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