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  • Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). In Wilde's play LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3 (1892), Lord Darlington replies to the question "What is a cynic?": "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."