It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
ADAM SMITHThe 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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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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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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All money is a matter of belief.
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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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Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
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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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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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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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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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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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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
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Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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