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From Quotes by Adam Smith
- The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their…
- 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…
- On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
- Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable…
- How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render…
- Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There…
- 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…
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