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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Adam Smith

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
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Believe Enough Experience Live Man Teaching Wisdom
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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Family Greatness King Privacy
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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Explosion Home Hunt Prejudice Protection World
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Consumption End Production Purpose
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Advice Experiment Focus Strategy
No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Complaint Money
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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Employment Fear Government Independent Instrument Man Order
Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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Appearance Connection Discover Expectation Kind Man Nature Philosophy Pretend Principle Science Study Wonderful
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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End Hands Himself Intention Leadership
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
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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Age Kind Man Master Ourselves People World
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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Change Fact Generation Greatness Mathematics Opinion Rule Theory
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Cruelty Guilty Innocent Justice Mercy
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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Desire Man Money Power
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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Animal Attitude Character Dog Man
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Difference Food Necessary Worth

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

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