The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
ADAM SMITHAs soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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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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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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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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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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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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The game women play is men.
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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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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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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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The 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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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
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