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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

Adam Smith

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Enjoyment Greatness People Rich
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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Age Kind Man Master Ourselves People World
As 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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Country Demand Land Love Man Natural Privacy Produce Property
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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Animal Man Race
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Destroy Force Freedom
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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Beyond Himself Maintain Violence Work
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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Customer Discipline Employment Exercise Fear Lose Man Mistake Reality Work
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
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
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Children Material Nation People Prosperity Wealth
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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Faith Greatness Myself Politics
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Fingers Happiness Wisdom
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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Desire Love Man Nature Object
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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Employment Fear Government Independent Instrument Man Order
Defense is superior to opulence.
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Defense One Liner Protection
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 property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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Foundation Man Property

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

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