Per contra, the late Elie Halevy, the historian of Benthamism, once maintained that, broadly speaking, what a man is paid for his work is what he himself believes it to be worth. I am sure this is not true of authors: I have always found, in my own case, that the more I thought a book was worth, the less I was paid for it.
Source: Power, a new social analysis, 1938, by Bertrand Russell
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