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Adam Smith has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
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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…
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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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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or…
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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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…
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the…
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