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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.

Adam Smith

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Beggar Choice Citizenship Independent
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Cruelty Guilty Innocent Justice Mercy
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Ambition Goodness Service
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
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Goodness Myself Pursue Society Trade
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Philosophy Respect
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Affect Goodness Myself Trade
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
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
Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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Appearance Connection Discover Expectation Kind Man Nature Philosophy Pretend Principle Science Study Wonderful
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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Desire Man Money Power
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Cheerful Grace Habit Happiness
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
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Deal Different Manufacture Respect Trade
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
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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Equality Greatness Injustice Material Property

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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