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Updated: July 12, 2025
On the other hand, no woman can ever hope to make a career who persists in narrowing and cheapening herself with the notion that her virtue is her all. She'll not amount to much as a worker in the fields of action." Susan reflected, sighed. "It's very, very hard to get rid of one's sex." "It's impossible," declared he. "Don't try. But don't let it worry you, either."
"Listen, then, to what happened, no longer ago than yesterday, in the Rue de la Hochette. A man was cheapening a fowl." "Well, how could that injure me, abbe?" "This way. The fowl was not fat. The purchaser refused to give eighteen sous for it, saying that he could not afford eighteen sous for the skin of a fowl from which M. Fouquet had sucked all the fat." "Go on."
The southern agricultural labourer and the whole body of low-skilled workers were probably in most respects as well off a century and a half ago as they are to-day. The great fall of prices, due to cheapening of production and of transport during the last twenty years, benefits the poor far less than the rich.
To our thinking, it says little for the German way of doing business that the difficulty in unspelling the castle near Lossin, and the maiden who dwelt therein, was to buy a pair of shoes without bargaining and cheapening their price, but to pay for them exactly the piece of money which the maiden handed to the youth who undertook the enterprise.
This time, she could not mistake the signal, and felt her womanish idealism of mining for the hidden vein of heroism both childish and cheapening. She rose and placed the flower back on the desk. "There's something bigger than you or me, my dear," he went on, "something for which every man worth his salt must work and fight, and which a woman does not understand." "And that is?"
But if, at the one end of the modern process of production and distribution, we find this tendency towards a magnificent simplicity, at the other, the workers' end, we have the very same aim of economy of effort and the cheapening of production resulting in an enormously increased complexity. The actual work performed by each worker is simplified.
His estimate of the life of the nineteenth century made me catch my breath a little; and I said feebly, "But the labour-saving machines?" "Heyday!" quoth he. "What's that you are saying? the labour-saving machines? Friend, all their devices for cheapening labour simply resulted in increasing the burden of labour.
Gerty shook her head, mutely unconvinced. She felt not only that Lily was cheapening herself by making use of an intimacy she would never have cultivated from choice, but that, in drifting back now to her former manner of life, she was forfeiting her last chance of ever escaping from it.
"I have given you near on a million, and you are cheapening my misfortunes. Very well; now I will have you you and your fortune. Our goods are in common, our marriage is not dissolved " "But monsieur is not Colonel Chabert!" cried the Countess, in feigned amazement. "Indeed!" said the old man, in a tone of intense irony. "Do you want proofs? I found you in the Palais Royal "
The cheapening of any article in common use almost immediately results in a largely increased demand for that article. Take the case of shoes, for instance.
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