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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contri
by hyperpallium2 5y ago
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
- tsimionescu 5y agoAdam Smith, right?
- hyperpallium2 5y agoyep, but try to consider google whenever a question forms (even in your head). Some questions are curiously resistant to this. https://www.google.com/search?q=People+of+the+same+trade+seldom+meet+together%2C+even+for+merriment+and+diversion%2C+but+the+conversation+ends+in+a+conspiracy+against+the+public%2C+or+in+s https://www.google.com/search?q=People+of+the+same+trade+sel...
- tsimionescu 5y agoI knew the quote before hand, I wanted to make it clear for others that you were quoting something and not just coming up with an opinion. I phrased it as a question to sound more polite, which seems to have backfired a bit.
- hyperpallium2 5y agoYes, the question mark makes it sound like a question. An option is "by Adam Smith". Trying to "sound more polite" may be the problem - I prefer either brutal directness or genuine kindness to sounding polite. It's a very well-known quote. IMHO the language and phrasing are too archaic to come across as an opinion, even to someone it isn't well-known to. The curious will google (though it doesn't hurt for you to add attribution). I hope you'll appreciate that my reply was helpful and charitable - though it too seems to have missed the mark!