Anthony Trollope quote about motto from Phineas Redux - Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
 Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux (1874). copy citation

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Author Anthony Trollope
Source Phineas Redux
Topic motto proverb
Date 1874
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18640/18640-h/18640-h.htm

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“What with the joint-stock working of companies, and the confusion between directors who know nothing and managers who know everything, and the dislike of juries to tread upon people's corns, you can't punish dishonest trading. Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from dishonest stony-hearted Rome. With such a motto as that to guide us no man dare trust his brother. Caveat lex,—and let the man who cheats cheat at his peril."
"You'd give the law a great deal to do."
"Much less than at present.” source

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