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When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

BURKE Speech on the Conciliation of America.

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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content-
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.
GEORGE CANNING's dispatch to SIR CHARLES
BAGOT, Jan. 31, 1826. See Notes and Queries,
Oct. 4, 1902. P. 270. Claimed for MAR-
VELL in London Morning Post, May 25,
1904.

In making of treaties the fault of the Dutch,
Is giving too little and asking too much.
Given as a verbatim copy of the dispatch.

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade.

EMERSON-Work and Days.

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In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.

GAY-Fables. Rat-Catcher and Cats. L. 43. (See also HESIOD)

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A manufacturing district * * sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood. HALLAM-View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages. Ch. IX.

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Mr. Howel Walsh, in a corporation case tried at the Tralee assizes, observed that a corporation cannot blush. It was a body, it was true; had certainly a head-a new one every yearan annual acquisition of intelligence in every new lord mayor. Arms he supposed it had, and very long ones too, for it could reach at anything. Legs, of course, when it made such long strides. A throat to swallow the rights of the community, and a stomach to digest them. But who ever yet discovered, in the anatomy of any corporation, either bowels or a heart? HONE. In his Table-Book.

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It is never the machines that are dead.

It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

GERALD STANLEY LEE-Crowds. Pt. II. Ch. V.

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Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world. GERALD STANLEY LEE - Crowds. Pt. II. Ch. VIII.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

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Consilia callida et audacia prima specie læta, tractatu dura, eventu tristia sunt.

Hasty and adventurous schemes are at first view flattering, in execution difficult, and in the issue disastrous.

LIVY-Annales. XXXV. 32.

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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

LOWELL-Among My Books. New England Two Centuries Ago.

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As touching corporations, that they were invisible, immortal and that they had no soul, therefor no supoena lieth against them, because they have no conscience or soul.

SIR ROGER MANWOOD, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. (1592) See Dictionary of National Biography.

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(See also COKE)

You silly old fool, you don't even know the alphabet of your own silly old business. Attributed to JUDGE MAULE.

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(See also CHESTERFIELD)

A blind bargain.

Merrie Tales of the Madmen of Gottam. (1630) No. 13.

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Curse on the man who business first designed, And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind! OLDHAM-Complaining of Absence. 11.

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Negotii sibi qui volet vim parare,
Navem et mulierem, hæc duo comparato.
Nam nullæ magis res duæ plus negotii
Habent, forte si occeperis exornare.
Neque unquam satis hæ duæ res ornantur,
Neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est.

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

PLAUTUS-Panulus. I. 2. 2.

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Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise,
Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,
With graceless toil of beak and added claw,
The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!
And this to gratify the gloating gaze
Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,
But know to prize the infraction of her law
And hard perversion of her creatures' ways!
Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,
Where notes of liquid utterance should engage
Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.
JULIAN FANE-Poems. Second Edition, with
Additional Poems. To a Canary Bird.

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