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Adam Smith Quotes

» Man, an animal that makes bargains.

» Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

» 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.

» Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

» To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

» What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

» 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.

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

» Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.

» Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

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