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.
ADAM SMITHJustice, 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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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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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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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.
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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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A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
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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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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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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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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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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in 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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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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It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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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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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 problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.
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