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— Ihara Saikaku"Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water."
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If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
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The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
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