Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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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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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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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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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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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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