I am a beau in nothing but my books.
ADAM SMITHIn 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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All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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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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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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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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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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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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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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