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Selfish Spirit of Commerce

Posted on September 12, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Larkin Smith, 1809, quoted in What Liberals Believe, page 72, edited by William Martin

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