He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
ADAM SMITHMercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
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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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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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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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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 proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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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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Every man lives by exchanging.
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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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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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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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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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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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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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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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Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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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 am a beau in nothing but my books.
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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