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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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.
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
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.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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.
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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