Quotes with merchants

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• How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

  Carter G. Woodson
  American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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• Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.

  The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• men-intellectuals
• ignorant-gathered
• constructing
• enlightened
• governments
• scholars

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