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What the world values3 quotes
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. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. — Thomas Dekker · 1599It 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 · 1831