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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

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The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

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Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

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To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

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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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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

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All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

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

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The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

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

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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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I am a beau in nothing but my books.

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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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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Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

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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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