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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.

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  Feel , Nature , Perfection , Human Nature


No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  Miserable , Happy , Society , Poor


Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  Animal , Man , Dog , Bones


Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  World , Money , Gold , Wealth


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.

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  Own , Business , Expect , Dinner


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

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist


Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  Easy , Peace , Rest , Justice


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

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  More , Money , Than , Common


Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  Only , End , Purpose , Producer


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

Author: Adam Smith - Scottish Economist
  City , Through , Road , Valley


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