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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Adam Smith

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 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
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Destroy Force Freedom
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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Customer Discipline Employment Exercise Fear Lose Man Mistake Reality Work
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
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
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Himself Man Necessary Work
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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Consience Happiness Health Man Money
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Animal Man One Liner
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
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Children Material Nation People Prosperity Wealth
In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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Beggar Body Different Fight Himself King Life Mindset Peace Security
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
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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Corruption Emotion Greatness Moral Ourselves Person Poor Powerful Rich Worship
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
ADAM SMITH

Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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Administration Carry Easy Justice Low Nature Peace State Tolerance
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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Consumption End Necessary Production Purpose
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.
ADAM SMITH

Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

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