The game women play is men.
ADAM SMITHAs soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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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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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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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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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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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . Hunted out of every corner of the world.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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