The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
ADAM SMITHThe great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
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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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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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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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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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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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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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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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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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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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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 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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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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