Private Consumption

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    There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
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