Venus Smith

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    Gat-toothed was I, and that bicam me weel;
    I hadde the prente of Sainte Venus seel.
    As help me God, I was a lusty oon,
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    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. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    —Adam Smith (1723–1790)