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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

Adam Smith

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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Afraid Cure Evil Human Injustice Kind Man Nature Rule Violence
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
ADAM SMITH

Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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Defense Government Institution Poor Property Reality Rich Security
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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Injustice Price Profit Society
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
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
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Desire Important Man Management Return
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Enjoyment Greatness People Rich
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
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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Journey Myself Path Road
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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Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
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
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.
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Character Different Garden Hands Independent Money Pay Person Production
Every man lives by exchanging.
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Generosity Live Man
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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Cost Man Price Reality Trouble
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.
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Defense Guard Hate Innocence Justice Nature Safety Security
It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
ADAM SMITH

Age Believe End Experience Freedom Man Nation Performance Slave

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

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