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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.

Adam Smith

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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Flourish Greatness Happiness Misery Poor Society
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
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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Beggar Body Different Fight Himself King Life Mindset Peace Security
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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Explosion Home Hunt Prejudice Protection World
The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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Foundation Man Property
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
ADAM SMITH

Complaint Power Time Yourself
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
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Economy Greatness King People Pretend Privacy Society
In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
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Competition Freedom Trade Work
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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Country Demand Land Love Man Natural Privacy Produce Property
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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Change Fact Generation Greatness Mathematics Opinion Rule Theory
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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Age Kind Man Master Ourselves People World
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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Limitation Market Price
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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Customer Discipline Employment Exercise Fear Lose Man Mistake Reality Work
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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Citizenship Country Necessary Property Trade
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Difference Food Necessary Worth
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
ADAM SMITH

Goodness Myself Pursue Society Trade

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