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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.

Adam Smith

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.
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Engagement Feeling Human Nature Perfection Selfish
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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Conversation End Happiness Leaving People Price Togetherness Trade
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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Economy Money Price Work
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
ADAM SMITH

Philosophy Respect
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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Cheerful Grace Habit Happiness
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.
ADAM SMITH

Age Believe End Experience Freedom Man Nation Performance Slave
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
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
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.
ADAM SMITH

Beggar Body Different Fight Himself King Life Mindset Peace Security
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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Economy Greatness King People Pretend Privacy Society
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
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Animal Born Man Natural Science
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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Consumption End Production Purpose
All money is a matter of belief.
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Belief Money One Liner
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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Citizenship Country Necessary Property Trade
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
ADAM SMITH

Desire Man Money Power

Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.

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