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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.

Adam Smith

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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Defense Guard Hate Innocence Justice Nature Safety Security
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
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Evidence Exception Fortune Happiness Himself Man Nature Necessary Principle See Selfish
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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Affect Improvement Manufacture Natural Price Reality
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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Destruction Greatness Nation Poor Privacy
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
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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Consumption End Necessary Production Purpose
In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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Beggar Body Different Fight Himself King Life Mindset Peace Security
It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
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Age Believe End Experience Freedom Man Nation Performance Slave
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Cheerful Grace Habit Happiness
Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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Administration Country Justice Party Pay Performance Reality Responsibility Worst
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
All money is a matter of belief.
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Belief Money One Liner
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
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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Age Kind Man Master Ourselves People World
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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Family Greatness King Privacy
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Flourish Greatness Happiness Misery Poor Society
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
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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Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
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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Consience Happiness Health Man Money
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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Desire Man Money Power
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Evidence Ideas Ignorance Imagination Learning
Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
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Excitement Jealous Nation Violence
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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Earth Generation Mad Nature Power Property Right
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
Every man lives by exchanging.
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Generosity Live Man
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Animal Man One Liner
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Difference Food Necessary Worth

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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