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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
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Fools Generation Money Problem Reward Save Work
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
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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Dignity Fortune Man Moral Small
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Advice Experiment Focus Strategy
Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
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People Possible Tax Treasure
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
No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Complaint Money
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Ambition Goodness Service
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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Limitation Market Price
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Difference Food Necessary Worth
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
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Philosophy Respect
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Cruelty Guilty Innocent Justice Mercy
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Goodness Myself Pursue Society Trade
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

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

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