Image by mrtruffle via FlickrThe highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – St. Thomas AquinasWhen someone gets something for nothing. Someone else gets nothing for something. – anonymous
Someone has suggested that America’s greatest gifts to civilization are three: cornflakes, Kleenex, and credit. – Louis T. Benezet
When a merchant speaks of sheep he means the hide. – Swiss Proverb
No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. – Abraham Lincoln
Piracy, n: commerce without its folly-swaddles – just as God made it. – Ambrose Bierce
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