The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success. (Edmund Burke)

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Edmund Burke

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