With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
Wealth of Nations, capitalism
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part I, Section III, Chapter II
1759
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