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Signs of expensiveness come to be perceived as beauty in the goods that carry them
Drawn from what Thorstein Veblen said
What Thorstein Veblen actually said
- Thorstein Veblen American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929)
The marks of expensiveness come to be accepted as beautiful features of the expensive articles.
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↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org
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