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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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“Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.”
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“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
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“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations”
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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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“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
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“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”
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“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”
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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 where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”
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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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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
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