"Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce."
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"Lawyers are the jackals of commerce."
"The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce."
"Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most."
"The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves."
"Commerce is really as interesting as nature."
"Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained."