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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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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,…
— David Hume
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor,…
— Adam Smith
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American Indigence- Seeking or wishing to have more hands to reach out to fill the bottomless void from which there should be…
— Unknown Author
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