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Buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest can never be a principle of national economy
Drawn from what John Ruskin said
What John Ruskin actually said
- John Ruskin English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900)
So far as I know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, "Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest," represents, or under any circumstances could represent, an available principle of national economy.
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