"The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties"

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Source : Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.446, Univ of California Press

Fernand Braudel

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“No news is good news. No journalists is even better.”
“It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.”
“The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.”

Source : "Liber de ludo aleae". Book by Gerolamo Cardano, 1560.
“In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.”
“All Philosophy is Biography”
“The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.”
“He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork and leapt from her chair onto the table. Lydia, who was seated nearest her, grabbed her ankle before she could dive at Mr. Collins and, presumably, stab him about the head and neck for such an insult.”
“Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.”

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