Most artists, whether in religion, music, literature, painting, or what not, are shopkeepers in disguise. They hide their shop as much as they can, and keep pretending that it does not exist, but they are essentially shopkeepers and nothing else.
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The Artist and the Shopkeeper.Samuel(novelistButler
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
Adam Smith
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Benjamin Disraeli
I am not a fascist. Fascists are shopkeepers, I am a Nazi.
Alan Clark
All apartments are eligible as I ever heard tell of, just as all shopkeepers, barring that publican next door, are respectable.
Henry Savile Clarke
The arts in every field — music, drama, sculpture, painting — we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)
Eleanor Roosevelt
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