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Napolean I of France dismissed England as "L'Angleterre est une nation de boutiquiers" - a nation of shopkeeps.

He was not the first to use this phrase. Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations (1776)wrote: "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. ...."

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