Every man lives by exchanging.
ADAM SMITHWhat can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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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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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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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.
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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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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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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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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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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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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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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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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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Defense is superior to opulence.
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