English Economy

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“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant’s economy is a coarse symbol of the soul’s economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)