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The game women play is men.
Every man lives by exchanging.
All money is a matter of belief.
Defense is superior to opulence.
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
I am a beau in nothing but my books.
A sketch of a man facing to the right.
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
A true party-man hates and despises candour.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.
Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.