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The wealth of nations, glasgow edition, 1976, book iv, section vii. It is however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shop. Britain a nation of shopkeepers, suffragettes and jedi. Nation of shopkeepers that we are, neither side of the referendum debate considered the immaterial losses that would be wrought on the next generation by brexit my dad, postwar atlanticist and empire nostalgic as he was, to my constant irritation, would talk about europe as if it were a continent beyond the channel to which he didnt belong. View a nation of shopkeepers ebooktrial a nation of. The phrase a nation of shopkeepers, commonly attributed to napoleon, is a reference to. No contemporaneous french newspaper mentions that he did. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight, appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation of shopkeepers.
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