"A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers, and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation."
— England

January 1, 1970

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Josiah Tucker, Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects (1774). (The words are said to have been used by Dr. Tucker, in a sermon, some years before they appeared in print).