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"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
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"Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men."
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"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
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