I am a beau in nothing but my books.
ADAM SMITHThat the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . Hunted out of every corner of the world.
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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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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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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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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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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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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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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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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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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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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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