To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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
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,
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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
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