With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
ADAM SMITH
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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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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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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Every man lives by exchanging.
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The game women play is men.
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The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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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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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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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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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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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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