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Than Quotes by Adam Smith
- Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
- No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
- It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise…
- Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things,…
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