Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
ADAM SMITHMen, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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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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The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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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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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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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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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
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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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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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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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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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The game women play is men.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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