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Quotes by 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.
- 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.
- This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
- To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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