trade (job)

is a relationship whose natural effect is peace.

Peace is a natural effect of trade. Charles de Montesquieu

is almost always a dirty practice. There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. Anatole France

is such that just as all men once hunted out of necessity (but it has now become a pastime of the powerful and noble), so too might buying and selling one day go the same route.

Buying and selling have become common, like the art of reading and writing. Everybody has practiced it even if he is no tradesman. and gets more practice every day-just as formerly, when men were more savage, everybody was a hunter ,and practiced that art day after day. Thenhunt-:ing was common... but eventually it became a privilege of the powerful and noble... it lost its everyday character and its commonness because it ·ceased to be necessary... it became a matter of moods and lUxury. The same might happen some day to buying and selling . . One can imagine social conditions in which there is no buy· ing and selling and in which this art gradually ceases to be necessary. Perhaps some individuals who are less subject to the laws of the general condition will then permit themselves to buy and sell as a luxury of sentiment. At that point trade would acquire nobility, and the nobility might then enjoy trad· ing as much as they have hitherto enjoyed war and politics. while the esteem for politics might undergo a total change. Even now it is ceasing to be the art of the nobleman. and it is quite possible that some day one may find it so common and even vulgar that. along with all party literature and journalism, one would classify it as prostitution of the spirit.

is never learned thoroughly until one learns the tricks of the trade.

TRADE You never learn a trade thoroughly until you learn the tricks of the trade.

is the skill of selling things before they become worthless.

trade (job), n.All

trade (job)