Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

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