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The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

Adam Smith

Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Animal Man One Liner
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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Equality Greatness Injustice Material Property
Defense is superior to opulence.
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Defense One Liner Protection
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.
ADAM SMITH

Defense Government Institution Poor Property Reality Rich Security
The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
ADAM SMITH

Country Deep Destruction Fast Poor Profit Rich Ruin
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
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Consience Fear Vice Virtue
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Complaint Power Time Yourself
It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
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Luxury Necessary People Price Remember Tax
The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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Attachment Citizenship Country Necessary World
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
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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Desire Man Money Power
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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Afraid Cure Evil Human Injustice Kind Man Nature Rule Violence
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Fair Perfection Right See World
Every man lives by exchanging.
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Generosity Live Man
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 rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

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