“If Commerce is necessary to wealth, no Commerce means no wealth, and our statesman soon finds himself out of employment. Where wealth again is greatest, everything else being fairly equal, arts thrive the most.”

— Harry Gordon Selfridge

The Romance of Commerce (1918), Concerning Commerce

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