We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
ADAM SMITHA power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
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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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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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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Defense is superior to opulence.
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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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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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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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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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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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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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