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"Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery."
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11807">Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6669/">Shelley, Percy Bysshe</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/economy_and_economics/">Economy and Economics</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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