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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Adam Smith

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Advice Experiment Focus Strategy
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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Active Country Greatness Production
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Fingers Happiness Wisdom
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.
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Explosion Home Hunt Prejudice Protection World
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
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Cheerful Grace Habit Happiness
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
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.
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Change Fact Generation Greatness Mathematics Opinion Rule Theory
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
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
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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Beggar Choice Citizenship Independent
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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Limitation Market Price
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Animal Man One Liner
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Difference Food Necessary Worth
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Direction Education Greatness Object Secret
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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End Hands Himself Intention Leadership

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