It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
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The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
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