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> [That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/that-this-is-the-source-of-our-fellow-feeling-for-the-misery-of/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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> [As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/as-we-have-no-immediate-experience-of-what-other-men-feel-we-can-form/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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> [By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/by-pursuing-his-own-interest-the-individual-frequently-promotes-that/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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> [I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/i-have-never-known-much-good-done-by-those-who-affected-to-trade-for/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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## Other authors on Affected

## More by Adam Smith

> [Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/poor-david-hume-is-dying-fast-but-with-more-real-cheerfulness-and/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-effects-of-the-division-of-labour-in-the-general-business-of/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [Defense is superior to opulence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/defense-is-superior-to-opulence/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/there-is-a-great-deal-of-ruin-in-a-nation/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-profligacy-of-a-man-of-fashion-is-looked-upon-with-much-less/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/great-ambition-the-desire-of-real-superiority-of-leading-and/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/people-of-the-same-trade-seldom-meet-together-even-for-merriment-and/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/nobody-but-a-beggar-chooses-to-depend-chiefly-upon-the-benevolence-of/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/how-selfish-soever-man-may-be-supposed-there-are-evidently-some/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-liberal-reward-of-labour-therefore-as-it-is-the-affect-of/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [A sketch of a man facing to the right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/a-sketch-of-a-man-facing-to-the-right/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/what-can-be-added-to-the-happiness-of-a-man-who-is-in-health-out-of/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/it-is-not-from-the-benevolence-of-the-butcher-the-brewer-or-the-baker/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/when-we-have-read-a-book-or-poem-so-often-that-we-can-no-longer-find/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

> [We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/we-are-but-one-of-the-multitude-in-no-respect-better-than-any-other/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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