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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Adam Smith

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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Animal Attitude Character Dog Man
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Animal Born Man Natural Science
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
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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Beginning Control Destruction End Government Management Nature Relationship
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Belief Faith Myself One Liner Politics
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
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Believe Enough Experience Live Man Teaching Wisdom
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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Country Demand Land Love Man Natural Privacy Produce Property
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
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Children Material Nation People Prosperity Wealth
In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.
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Army Character Military Soldier Stand Trade
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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Enjoy Fulfill Human Life Man Necessary Poor Rich Satisfaction
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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Himself Man Necessary Work
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Complaint Power Time Yourself
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Fair Perfection Right See World
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Direction Education Greatness Object Secret
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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Economy Money Price Work
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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Corruption Emotion Greatness Moral Ourselves Person Poor Powerful Rich Worship

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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