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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.

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
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Cheerful Grace Habit Happiness
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
ADAM SMITH

Fingers Happiness Wisdom
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
ADAM SMITH

Change Fact Generation Greatness Mathematics Opinion Rule Theory
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Destroy Force Freedom
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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Buy Material Money Price Purpose Service
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
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
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
ADAM SMITH

Affect Goodness Myself Trade
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.
ADAM SMITH

Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
ADAM SMITH

Employment Fear Government Independent Instrument Man Order
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
ADAM SMITH

Consumption End Necessary Production Purpose
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.
ADAM SMITH

Beggar Body Different Fight Himself King Life Mindset Peace Security
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
ADAM SMITH

Journey Myself Path Road
Defense is superior to opulence.
ADAM SMITH

Defense One Liner Protection
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
ADAM SMITH

Fair Perfection Right See World

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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