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Letter "A" » Adam Smith Quotes
«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
| About:
Labor,
Money
| Keywords:
labour, originally, purchase, purchased, silver
«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
| Keywords:
attended, consumer, consumption, producer, producers, production, promoting, sole, The producer, The Producers
«Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.»
Author: Adam Smith
«No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable»
«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
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
affections, benevolent, constitute, restrain, selfishness
«The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
corrects, customers, effectual, employment, exercised, frauds, negligence, restrains, workman
«On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
ambiguities, ambiguity, on the road, pass through, skepticism, The Valley, valley
«Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.»
«The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.»
«Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.»
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