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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Adam Smith

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.
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Army Character Military Soldier Stand Trade
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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Cost Man Price Reality Trouble
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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Journey Myself Path Road
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Affect Goodness Myself 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
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
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Himself Man Necessary Work
Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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Appearance Connection Discover Expectation Kind Man Nature Philosophy Pretend Principle Science Study Wonderful
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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Evidence Exception Fortune Happiness Himself Man Nature Necessary Principle See Selfish
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Animal Born Man Natural Science
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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Defense Government Institution Poor Property Reality Rich Security
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
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
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
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Philosophy Respect
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
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

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