the English are a nation of shopkeepers
- the English are a nation of shopkeepers
Attributed to Napoleon in B. E. O’Meara Napoleon in Exile (1822) I. 103 L’Angleterre est une nation de boutiquiers. The concept of the shopkeeping nation is however earlier: 1766 J. TUCKER Letter from Merchant 46 A Shop-keeper will never get the more Custom by beating his Customers; and what is true of a Shop-keeper, is true of a Shop-keeping Nation; 1776 A. SMITH Wealth of Nations II. IV. vii. To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
1831 DISRAELI Young Duke I. xi. Hast thou brought this, too, about that ladies’ hearts should be won..over a counter... We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
1911 Times Weekly 17 Feb. 132 Napoleon..described the English as a nation of shopkeepers. Uttered in a sneering spirit, it embodied..the profound truth that our prosperity is based upon our trade.
1981 R. RENDELL Put on by Cunning xiv. Americans..are a nation of salesmen just as the English are a nation of small shopkeepers.
2002 Times 5 Jan. 25 England is indeed a nation of shopkeepers, but it has always preferred to draw these shopkeepers from among the newly Anglicised.
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