"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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"All money is a matter of belief."
Adam Smith"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."
Adam Smith"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."
Adam Smith"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
Adam Smith"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."
Adam Smith"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
Adam Smith"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."
Adam Smith"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."
Adam Smith"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."
Adam Smith"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
Adam Smith"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
Adam Smith