Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. - William Blake

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William Blake: "Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds."

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Above	Abroad	Arts	Become
Beneficial	Commerce	Commercial	Destructive
Empire	Empires	Flourish	Four
Great	Hatred	History	Individual
Merit	Reason	Scattered	Shows
Till	Winds

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