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.
ADAM SMITHThe game women play is men.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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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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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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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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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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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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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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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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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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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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