Adam Smith

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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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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 regard to their own interest.

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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 great instrument of ambition.

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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

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All money is a matter of belief.

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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

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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 human nature.

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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

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