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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

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
Defense is superior to opulence.
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Defense One Liner Protection
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
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Himself Man Necessary Work
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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Explosion Home Hunt Prejudice Protection World
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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Animal Man Race
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
Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
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Beyond Himself Maintain Violence Work
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
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
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
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
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Advice Experiment Focus Strategy
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
Every man lives by exchanging.
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Generosity Live Man
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Enjoyment Greatness People Rich
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Consience Fear Vice Virtue

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