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[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... infect the soul with evil Socrates Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people Kin Hubbard Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss Democritus place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long Wait ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... same thing, however, but the superior more honour and the inferior more gain; for honour is the prize of virtue and of beneficence, while gain is the assistance required by inferiority. It seems to be so in constitutional arrangements also; the man who contributes nothing good to the common stock ... |
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[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
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| ... it is net gain to the community. Among the striking remoter effects of the hedonistic preconception, and its working out in terms of pecuniary gain, is the classical failure to discriminate between capital as investment and capital as industrial appliances. This is, of course, closely related to the point already ... |
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| ... ends, and encroach on others' rights, will readily embrace the part of the afflicted, and proclaim the lawfulness of it; but the hope of gain is the certain and only aim of their purposes. And in this manner the Romans, Alexander the Great, and divers others, pretending to suppress tyrants, ... |
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[ LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCES]
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| ... greatest anxiety--the god of gain has his hand even on their young hearts. They may have some outward show of being religious, but gain is the real god. If there is anything that entails immediate action in connection with the business, you see how everything else is at once ... |
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| ... the motive of all that is done. Rewards are appointed and portioned out for what has been learned, not what has been imparted. To gain, is the universal order of the establishment; and those who have heaped together the greatest sum of knowledge are usually regarded as the most meritorious. ... |
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[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
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| ... a useful type of the two static incomes that we have to examine. The most interesting of recent applications of the principle of differential gain is the study of "Consumers' Rent" by Professor Marshall. This is something that practical men think of, but not in any connection with the product ... |
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