Man, an animal that makes bargains.
ADAM SMITH
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.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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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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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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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 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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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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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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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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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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In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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