Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
Source: Regards sur le monde actuel [Reflections on the World Today] (1931), p. 166
“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men and to be found in no other race of animals”
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