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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.

Adam Smith

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
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Desire Important Man Management Return
The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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Attachment Citizenship Country Necessary World
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Fair Perfection Right See World
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Enjoyment Greatness People Rich
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
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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Ignorance Instruction Intelligence Oneself Order People Stupidity
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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Cost Man Price Reality Trouble
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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Himself Man Necessary Work
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Consumption End Production Purpose
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
ADAM SMITH

Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Destroy Force Freedom
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
All money is a matter of belief.
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Belief Money One Liner
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
ADAM SMITH

Direction Education Greatness Object Secret

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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