It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
ADAM SMITH
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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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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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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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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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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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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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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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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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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