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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.

Adam Smith

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
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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Active Country Greatness Production
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
ADAM SMITH

Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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Consience Happiness Health Man Money
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Cheerful Grace Habit Happiness
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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Injustice Price Profit Society
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Advice Experiment Focus Strategy
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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Dignity Fortune Man Moral Small
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Affect Goodness Myself Trade
The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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Country Deep Destruction Fast Poor Profit Rich Ruin
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Fingers Happiness Wisdom
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
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
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Engagement Feeling Human Nature Perfection Selfish
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 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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Animal Man Race
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

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