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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Adam Smith

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Direction Education Greatness Object Secret
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
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Fools Generation Money Problem Reward Save Work
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
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
Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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Administration Country Justice Party Pay Performance Reality Responsibility Worst
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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Gold Money Pay Price Purchase Wealth Work World
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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Employment Fear Government Independent Instrument Man Order
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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Active Country Greatness Production
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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Beginning Control Destruction End Government Management Nature Relationship
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
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Desire Love Man Nature Object
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Philosophy Respect
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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Destruction Greatness Nation Poor Privacy
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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Age Kind Man Master Ourselves People World
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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Buy Material Money Price Purpose Service

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

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