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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

Adam Smith

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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Children Material Nation People Prosperity Wealth
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
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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Philosophy Respect
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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Ignorance Instruction Intelligence Oneself Order People Stupidity
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
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Character Different Garden Hands Independent Money Pay Person Production
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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Active Country Greatness Production
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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Defense Government Institution Poor Property Reality Rich Security
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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Animal Attitude Character Dog Man
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Direction Education Greatness Object Secret
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 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
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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Fingers Happiness 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
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

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