I am a beau in nothing but my books.
ADAM SMITHAll money is a matter of belief.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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All money is a matter of belief.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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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 is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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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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