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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Adam Smith

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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Faith Greatness Myself Politics
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Enjoyment Greatness People Rich
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
All money is a matter of belief.
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Belief Money One Liner
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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Explosion Home Hunt Prejudice Protection World
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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Art Democracy Government Learning Money People Politics
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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Afraid Cure Evil Human Injustice Kind Man Nature Rule Violence
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
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
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
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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Dignity Fortune Man Moral Small
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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Change Fact Generation Greatness Mathematics Opinion Rule Theory
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Consumption End Production Purpose
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
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
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Economy Greatness King People Pretend Privacy Society
It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
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Luxury Necessary People Price Remember Tax

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