No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
ADAM SMITHIt 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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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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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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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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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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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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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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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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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
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