I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
ADAM SMITHThe 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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The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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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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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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The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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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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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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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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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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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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