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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Adam Smith

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
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Limitation Market Price
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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Desire Important Man Management Return
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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Buy Material Money Price Purpose Service
I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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Book Myself
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Animal Born Man Natural Science
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Affect Goodness Myself Trade
In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.
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Army Character Military Soldier Stand Trade
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Advice Experiment Focus Strategy
No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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Complaint Money
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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Beginning Control Destruction End Government Management Nature Relationship
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
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Fair Perfection Right See World
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Complaint Power Time Yourself
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
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
Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
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Beyond Himself Maintain Violence Work

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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