Walter Bagehot: “A big grocer despises the exciseman; and what in many countries would…”

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A big grocer despises the exciseman; and what in many countries would be thought impossible, the exciseman envies the grocer.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot illustrates the social dynamics between a grocer and an exciseman.

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