Trade is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is almost a general rule, that wherever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes; and wherever there is commerce, there we meet with agreeable manners.
— Montesquieu Early Modern

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The Spirit of the Laws, Book XX, Chapter 1: Of Commerce and its Nature

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1748

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Shocking

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