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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

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
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
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Animal Man One Liner
It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
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Injustice Price Profit Society
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
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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Destruction Greatness Nation Poor Privacy
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
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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Desire Important Man Management Return
That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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Chance Learning Nature Success Value
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
A 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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Earth Generation Mad Nature Power Property Right
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
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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Administration Carry Easy Justice Low Nature Peace State Tolerance
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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Employment Greatness Loss Natural Profit Prosperity Trade
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
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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Ignorance Instruction Intelligence Oneself Order People Stupidity

The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

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