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The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness, the merchandise of authors, priests, and kings.
The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness, the merchandise of authors, priests, and kings.
Approximate author period: c. 1773 AD · early modern
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- Madame Roland
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- Approximate author period: c. 1773 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1754–1793)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 244 · printed citation: Madame Roland · subject: Society
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