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> [Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/again-most-of-the-chief-distinctions-marked-by-economic-terms-are/)

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## More by Alfred Marshall

> [I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/i-admit-that-these-terms-and-the-diagrams-connected-with-them-repel/)

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> [“(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/1-use-mathematics-as-shorthand-language-rather-than-as-an-engine-of/)

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> [The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/the-price-of-every-thing-rises-and-falls-from-time-to-time-and-place/)

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> [Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/nature-s-action-is-complex-and-nothing-is-gained-in-the-long-run-by/)

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> [All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/all-wealth-consists-of-desirable-things-that-is-things-which-satisfy/)

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> [Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/knowledge-is-our-most-powerful-engine-of-production/)

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> [And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/and-very-often-the-influence-exerted-on-a-person-s-character-by-the/)

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> [In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/in-common-use-almost-every-word-has-many-shades-of-meaning-and/)

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> [The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/the-hope-that-poverty-and-ignorance-may-gradually-be-extinguished/)

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> [Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/though-a-simple-book-can-be-written-on-selected-topics-the-central/)

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> [The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/the-hope-that-poverty-and-ignorance-may-gradually-be-extinguished-2/)

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> [Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/again-most-of-the-chief-distinctions-marked-by-economic-terms-are/)

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> [But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/but-if-inventions-have-increased-man-s-power-over-nature-very-much/)

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> [Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/slavery-was-regarded-by-aristotle-as-an-ordinance-of-nature-and-so/)

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> [We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/we-might-as-well-reasonably-dispute-whether-it-is-the-upper-or-the/)

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