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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6779/">Quotes by <em>Smith, Adam</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"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."

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"Man, an animal that makes bargains."

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"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."

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

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"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."

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

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

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

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"The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex."

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"The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness."

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