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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

Adam Smith

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
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Destroy Force Freedom
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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Affect Direction Greatness Improvement Judgement Power Production Skill Work
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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Beginning Control Destruction End Government Management Nature Relationship
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
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
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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Earth Generation Mad Nature Power Property Right
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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Equality Greatness Injustice Material Property
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
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Fingers Happiness Wisdom
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
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 for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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Desire Man Money Power
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
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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Journey Myself Path Road
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

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

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