Adam Smith
Philosopher, Economist
"Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity."
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Corn
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Meriwether Lewis
Explorer, Author
"A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully."
"The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons."
David Hume
Philosopher, Historian
"Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow."
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"Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn"
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"As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look."
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"A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes."
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"Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep."
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"We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!"
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"I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice."
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"Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread."
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"I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me."
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"I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows."
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"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]"
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"The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn."
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"Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it."
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"There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market."
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"The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent."
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"Corn is the only food you hold like corn."
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"The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head."
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"In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe."
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"The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind."
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"For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money."
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"I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest."
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