This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the… — Emile Zola

This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the individual entrepreneur, gobbled up one by one by the increasingly hungry ogre of capitalism, and drowned by the rising tide of large companies.

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