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A merchant's function is to provide for the nation, not to make a profit for himself
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- John Ruskin English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900)
Observe, the merchant's function (or manufacturer's, for in the broad sense in which it is here used the word must be understood to include both) is to provide for the nation. It is no more his function to get profit for himself out of that provision than it is a clergyman's function to get his stipend.
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