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• What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must… — Lord Byron
• [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison
• It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or… — Thomas Jefferson
• The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great… — Henry Morton Stanley
• They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next. — Lauren Willig
• Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs
• The mercantile business did not suit me — John James Audubon
• Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.… — Rick Atkinson
• The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations… — James Stephens

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