Adam Smith Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Progressive Taxation Quotes

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

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Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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Vanity is my favourite sin.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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