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.
Separation of powers
The Spirit of the Laws, Book XX, Chapter 1: Of Commerce and its Nature
1748
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