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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Adam Smith

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Evidence Ideas Ignorance Imagination Learning
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
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Engagement Feeling Human Nature Perfection Selfish
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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Affect Improvement Manufacture Natural Price Reality
It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
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Injustice Price Profit Society
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Consumption End Production Purpose
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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Afraid Cure Evil Human Injustice Kind Man Nature Rule Violence
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
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Economy Greatness King People Pretend Privacy Society
The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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Attachment Citizenship Country Necessary World
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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Defense Government Institution Poor Property Reality Rich Security
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
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Evidence Exception Fortune Happiness Himself Man Nature Necessary Principle See Selfish
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Destroy Force Freedom
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
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Enjoy Fulfill Human Life Man Necessary Poor Rich Satisfaction
That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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Chance Learning Nature Success Value
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Ambition Goodness Service
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
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Character Different Garden Hands Independent Money Pay Person Production
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman

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