This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

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