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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

Adam Smith

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
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Cheerful Grace Habit Happiness
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
The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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Country Deep Destruction Fast Poor Profit Rich Ruin
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
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Fair Perfection Right See World
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
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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Economy Money Price Work
Every man lives by exchanging.
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Generosity Live Man
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Philosophy Respect
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
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Desire Important Man Management Return
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Beggar Choice Citizenship Independent
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
Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
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Employment Greatness Laughter Man People Propose Rich Thinking
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Difference Food Necessary Worth
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Cruelty Guilty Innocent Justice Mercy

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