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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…
• The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their…
• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
• To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
• The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
• Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or…
• Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
• As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap…
• Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
• The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no…
• All money is a matter of belief.

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