"I am a warrior, so that my son……" — John Quincy Adams
"I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet."
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John Quincy Adams
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make…
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With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . .…
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Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the…
— Augustin Thierry
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By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting…
— Howard Zinn
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The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."
— Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ...…
— Karl Marx
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A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors…
— Grenville Kleiser
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Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown…
— Newell Dwight Hillis
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