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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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Affect Improvement Manufacture Natural Price Reality
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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Equality Greatness Injustice Material Property
I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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Book Myself
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Flourish Greatness Happiness Misery Poor Society
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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Believe Enough Experience Live Man Teaching Wisdom
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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Citizenship Country Necessary Property Trade
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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Administration Country Justice Party Pay Performance Reality Responsibility Worst
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
ADAM SMITH

Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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Beginning Control Destruction End Government Management Nature Relationship
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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Conversation End Happiness Leaving People Price Togetherness Trade
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Direction Education Greatness Object Secret
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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Affect Direction Greatness Improvement Judgement Power Production Skill Work
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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Art Democracy Government Learning Money People Politics
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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Limitation Market Price
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

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