Defense is superior to opulence.
ADAM SMITHThe division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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The game women play is men.
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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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Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
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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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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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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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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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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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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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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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