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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.

Adam Smith

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Enjoyment Greatness People Rich
No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Complaint Money
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Beggar Choice Citizenship Independent
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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Employment Greatness Loss Natural Profit Prosperity Trade
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Evidence Ideas Ignorance Imagination Learning
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
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
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Character Deep Himself Man Reaction Yourself
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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End Hands Himself Intention Leadership
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Destroy Force Freedom
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Advice Experiment Focus Strategy
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
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Evidence Exception Fortune Happiness Himself Man Nature Necessary Principle See Selfish
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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Earth Generation Mad Nature Power Property Right
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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Employment Fear Government Independent Instrument Man Order
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
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Belief Enthusiasm Medicine Poison Science Superstition

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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