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“Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question.”

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Book:Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience
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Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience

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