The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniences and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.
Wealth of Nations, capitalism
The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter XI, Part II
1776
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