the dangerous practice of stockjobbing, and would divert th… - Charles Mackay

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the dangerous practice of stockjobbing, and would divert the genius of the nation from trade and industry. It would hold out a dangerous lure to decoy the unwary to their ruin, by making them part with the earnings of their labour for a prospect of imaginary wealth.

Charles Mackay

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Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer.

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Some men, by dint of excessive egotism, manage to persuade their contemporaries that they are very great men indeed: they publish their acquirements so loudly in people’s ears, and keep up their own praises so incessantly, that the world’s applause is actually taken by storm.

Some in clandestine companies combine;
Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line;
With air and empty names beguile the town,
And raise new credits first, then cry ’em down;
Divide the empty nothing into shares,
And set the crowd together by the ears. – Defoe

Posterity is grateful if our contemporaries are not.

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