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“England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.”

“We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.”

Nations Wealth Race Development Resources Europe England

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.”

Growth Wealth Results Effort Achievement Ambition England Strive Busy Circles France Vain Continents Multitudes Expansion Competence New England Toiling

Book:Pioneers of France in the New World

Source: Pioneers of France in the New World

“The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.”

Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life

“Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I”

Wealth Poor Rich England Folks Pleasant

Book:Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc

Source: Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc

“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”

Wealth Lord Birth England Gentleman Peers Mechanic Antiquity Rakes Impudence

Book:The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe

Source: The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe

“Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.”

Art America Wealth Democracy Influence Paper England Property Contrary Destroyed Corporations Printing Aristocracy Recourse

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams

“It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.”

Country America Wealth Rich Growing Greatness Higher Highest Increase England Occasions Labour Wages Minimum Wage North America Present Time Living Wage

Book:Wealth of Nations (Abridged)

Source: Wealth of Nations (Abridged)

“Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.”

Government Able Natural Wealth Progress England Improvement Retarded

Book:An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

Source: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

“God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire”

Knows Whole Law Wealth Gone Land Stupid Products Waste Built England Privilege Karma Queens Beast Empires Fascism Regimes Elites Fascists Sinking Backlash Bad Karma Toothless

Author:William S. Burroughs

“In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.”

Source: Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde