Adam Smith Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: 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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
 
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 Theory quotes 
Suggest Revision: The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
 
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 Society quotes 
Suggest Revision: No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable
 
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 Prejudice quotes 
Suggest Revision: It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner of the world
 
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 Money quotes   Labor quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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 Imagination quotes 
Suggest Revision: This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
 
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 Enthusiasm quotes 
Suggest Revision: Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
 
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 Defense quotes 
Suggest Revision: Defense is superior to opulence.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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