Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
ADAM SMITHMan is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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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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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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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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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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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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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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Defense is superior to opulence.
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Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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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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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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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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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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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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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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A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
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In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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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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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
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