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.
ADAM SMITHNo society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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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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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
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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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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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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.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.
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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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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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