The game women play is men.
ADAM SMITHIn 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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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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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.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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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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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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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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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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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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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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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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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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