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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Smith

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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Cost Man Price Reality Trouble
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
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Fingers Happiness Wisdom
No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Complaint Money
In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
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Competition Freedom Trade Work
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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Citizenship Country Necessary Property Trade
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
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Complaint Power Time Yourself
Every man lives by exchanging.
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Generosity Live Man
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Beggar Choice Citizenship Independent
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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Family Greatness King Privacy
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
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Enjoy Fulfill Human Life Man Necessary Poor Rich Satisfaction
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
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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Limitation Market Price

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

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