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.
ADAM SMITHIt is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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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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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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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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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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A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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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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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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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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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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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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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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Defense is superior to opulence.
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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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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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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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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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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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It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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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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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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