“The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.”

— Adam Smith

Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part III, Third Period, p. 240.

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Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723–1790

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