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.
ADAM SMITHIt 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.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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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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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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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
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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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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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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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The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
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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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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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