An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . Hunted out of every corner of the world.
ADAM SMITHThe world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
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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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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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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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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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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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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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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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