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We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Exchanging gifts is an important thing in the steppe culture, a way for them to feel you have become a part of their lives.

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

Gifts make slaves.

We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.