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• The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods

  Thorstein Veblen
  Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conspicuous
• consumption
• pecuniary
• retaining
• showing
• gaining

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