• Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy it self, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.

  Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10

  Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist 1670-1733
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. fickleness
2. furniture
3. darling
4. strange
5. their
6. folly

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Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy it self, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade. by : Bernard Mandeville

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