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A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.

Adam Smith

No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Complaint Money
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Ambition Goodness Service
The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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Country Deep Destruction Fast Poor Profit Rich Ruin
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
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Belief Enthusiasm Medicine Poison Science Superstition
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Animal Born Man Natural Science
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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Competition Freedom Trade Work
What 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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Consience Happiness Health Man Money
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Goodness Myself Pursue Society Trade
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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Gold Money Pay Price Purchase Wealth Work World
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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Employment Greatness Loss Natural Profit Prosperity Trade
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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Army Character Military Soldier Stand Trade
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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Active Country Greatness Production
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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Age Kind Man Master Ourselves People World
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
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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Employment Fear Government Independent Instrument Man Order

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.

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