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Topic·What the world values✕clear

The things which...are esteemed as the greatest good of all…can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With those three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

1677

★ 5.2

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Old Fortunatus · 1599

★ 1.9

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

Richard Whately

Introductory Lectures on Political Economy · 1831

★ 1.9