Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. L…

Thomas Carlyle
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Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1858). Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle, p.214
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Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1858). Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle, p.214

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