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.
ADAM SMITHWhat is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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As 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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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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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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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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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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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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The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
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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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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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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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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
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