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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
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Birth: | 30th July, 1857 |
Death: | 3rd August, 1929 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Critic, Economist, Leader, Sociologist |
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