A desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combined with honesty and they cannot take you astray.

Anthony Trollope

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Greed Capitalism Progress

Speaker

Plantagenet Palliser

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

Can You Forgive Her?

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? 1864-1865. Serial.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? Penguin Classics, 1975.

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Time
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Man and nature Environmental destruction

Author

George Perkins Marsh
Source
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Language
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Time
1864 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. New York: Charles Scribner, 1864, ch. 1.

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