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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Adam Smith

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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Consience Happiness Health Man Money
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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Destruction Greatness Nation Poor Privacy
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Belief Enthusiasm Medicine Poison Science Superstition
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Evidence Ideas Ignorance Imagination Learning
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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Faith Greatness Myself Politics
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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Country Demand Land Love Man Natural Privacy Produce Property
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Fingers Happiness Wisdom
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Flourish Greatness Happiness Misery Poor Society
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Complaint Power Time Yourself
Every man lives by exchanging.
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Generosity Live Man
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
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Character Deep Himself Man Reaction Yourself
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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Customer Discipline Employment Exercise Fear Lose Man Mistake Reality Work
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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Conversation End Happiness Leaving People Price Togetherness Trade
Defense is superior to opulence.
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Defense One Liner Protection
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

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