No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
ADAM SMITH
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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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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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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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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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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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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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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The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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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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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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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 tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
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