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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, pamphleteer > Thomas Paine
What we obtain...
Vendor: PHILOSOPHY
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is the dearness only that gives everything value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
Source: The American Crisis, pamphlet, 23 Dec 1776; in Pennsylvania Journal, 19 Dec 1776.
-- Thomas Paine, (Jan 29 1737-1809), US philosopher, pamphleteer; He was a famous advocate of colonial independence in Common Sense, 1776.