Richard Whately Quote

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.


Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1832) p. 253


It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.