"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers."
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Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776), Volume II, Book IV, Chapter VII, Part III.
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