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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Adam Smith

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Consumption End Production Purpose
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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Beginning Control Destruction End Government Management Nature Relationship
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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Conversation End Happiness Leaving People Price Togetherness Trade
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Fingers Happiness Wisdom
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Direction Education Greatness Object Secret
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Affect Goodness Myself Trade
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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Engagement Feeling Human Nature Perfection Selfish
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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Demand Man Market Poor Product Satisfaction
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Cheerful Grace Habit Happiness
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Belief Enthusiasm Medicine Poison Science Superstition
That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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Chance Learning Nature Success Value
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
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
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
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Enjoy Fulfill Human Life Man Necessary Poor Rich Satisfaction

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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