Martial Laws

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    The country in the town. [Rus in urbe.]
    —Marcus Valerius Martial (c. 40–104)

    The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant’s economy is a coarse symbol of the soul’s economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)