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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

Adam Smith

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Destroy Force Freedom
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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Journey Myself Path Road
In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
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Competition Freedom Trade Work
The game women play is men.
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Game Man One Liner Play Relationship Woman
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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Ambition Goodness Service
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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Goodness Myself Pursue Society Trade
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
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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Economy Money Price Work
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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Affect Direction Greatness Improvement Judgement Power Production Skill Work
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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Cost Man Price Reality Trouble
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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Expectation Food Interest Job Ourselves Regard
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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Faith Greatness Myself Politics
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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Appearance Connection Discover Expectation Kind Man Nature Philosophy Pretend Principle Science Study Wonderful
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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Desire Man Money Power
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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Flourish Greatness Happiness Misery Poor Society
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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Enjoyment Greatness People Rich

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