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.
ADAM SMITHThe propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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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 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 is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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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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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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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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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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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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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Defense is superior to opulence.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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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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