I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
ADAM SMITHA 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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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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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
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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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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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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.
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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
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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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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
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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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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
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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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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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