Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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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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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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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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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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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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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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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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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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