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• The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. — David Ricardo
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• There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. — David Ricardo
• The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities. — David Ricardo
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• A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits. — David Ricardo