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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.


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The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.
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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
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Poets wish to profit or to please.


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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.


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