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The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

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Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.

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A sketch of a man facing to the right.

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

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A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

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The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

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

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All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

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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 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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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

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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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In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

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The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

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