Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy it self, and Vanity, Were… — Bernard Mandeville
Luxury
Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
And odious Pride a Million more;
Envy it self, and Vanity,
Were Ministers of Industry;
Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
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