"I hate commerce" (01/01/1794)
"How I hate this crooked business! This intercourse with the world, which obliges one to see the worst side of human nature" (29/12/1794)
"Anything but commerce, which debases the mind, and roots out affection from the heart" (09/01/1795)
"Business so entirely occupies you, that you have not time, or sufficient command of thought, to write letters" (09/01/1795)
"You are so continually hurried with business" (10/02/1795)
"Often do I sigh, when I think of your entanglements in business" (14/06/1795)
"These continual inquietudes of business" (30/12/1794)
[Excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft's correspondence with Gilbert Imlay]
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