"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers."
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January 1, 1970

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Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Vol. ii. Book iv. Ch. vii. Part 3. 1775. Quoted in John Bartlett (1820-1905), Familiar quotations, 1876. p. 659.