The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
ADAM SMITHWe are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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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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Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
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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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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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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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