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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

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In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

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The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

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The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

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Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

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By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

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The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

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The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

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I have no faith in political arithmetic.

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The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

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In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.

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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 regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.

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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

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