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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, May, High

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Life, Peace, God

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom, Nothing, Sense

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith

Money, Wealth, Original

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass

Happiness, Black, Cannot

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope

Health, Diet, Anxiety

The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson

Future, Present

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome

Love, Affection, Price

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill Hybels

Down, Cannot, Heaven

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Dave Barry

Money, Art, Personal

Purchased experiences don't count.
Doug Coupland

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace, Strength, Weakness

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Marcelene Cox

Character, True, Until

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Quintilian

Laugh, Costs, Expense

Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.
Jeffrey Kluger

Time, Money, Pain

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Nicholas Sparks

Work, Blessed, Book

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Year, Alcoholic, Dollar

People don't understand the logistics of advertising. To have the ads purchased and run, you need to have a series of products that work together.
Susan Wojcicki

Work, Together, Understand

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
Adam Clarke

Happiness, Nature, Perfect

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
Harold H. Greene

Once, Times, Both

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
Charles Foster Bass

Computers, American, High

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.
James F. Byrnes

Peace, Country, Learned

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant

Happiness, Pain, Less

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Kit Williams

Home, Last, Knowing

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
Ree Drummond

Time, Money, Run

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
Charles M. Schwab

Career, Together, Loser

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.
Graeme Le Saux

Two, Enough, Last

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.
Sydney Brenner

Small, Enough, Chemistry

I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.
Dave Franco

Mom, Living, Big

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