Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
ADAM SMITHEvery man lives by exchanging.
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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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To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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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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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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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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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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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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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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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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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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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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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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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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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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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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