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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

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
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Engagement Feeling Human Nature Perfection Selfish
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
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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Foundation Man Property
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Cruelty Guilty Innocent Justice Mercy
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Direction Education Greatness Object Secret
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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Conversation End Happiness Leaving People Price Togetherness Trade
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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Gold Money Pay Price Purchase Wealth Work World
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Enjoyment Greatness People Rich
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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Cost Man Price Reality Trouble
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
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
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
No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Complaint Money
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Fair Perfection Right See World
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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Limitation Market Price
All money is a matter of belief.
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Belief Money One Liner

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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