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Our lives are a journey. As we move forward, we will not only figuratively experience the geography of life: the exhilaration of high mountains, the tranquility of calm meadows, the isolation of treacherous canyons, but we will also experience the seasons of life: the hope of spring, the abundance of summer, the harvest of autumn, and yes, the darkness and depression of winter. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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It is only through seeking that we find what we are looking for. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light? ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Like small seeds, small deeds can make a big difference. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Don't be afraid to be the person who loves the most ~ Seth Adam Smith
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You are worth infinitely more than you could possibly imagine. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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No key, no tool, no resource is more liberating than love. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Only you can decide what you become. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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We always have a choice. Only you can decide what you become. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me - walk in my woods, bathe in my rivers, eat of my harvest - they will find healing to their souls. But stray from me and return to the supposed wisdom of men, and they will find themselves in chains once more. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Men and women are what they make of themselves. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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For each of us, there comes a time when we must awaken and become what we were born to become. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Have faith in the light you carry. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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That woman's been riding the same broomstick for almost a hundred years. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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There are two forces at work in the world: the power of light and the power of darkness. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds - but more than anything, this garden is filled with so much life! ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Those who cling to the shadows will always hate and despise the light. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Faith is the deepest and truest form of magic. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful as they were, only added to the overall beauty of your life. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence - wishing, waiting, hoping, praying. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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But in the midst of our greatest pains we can find comfort and encouragement in the fact that others with similar struggles have successfully gone before us. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Every life has immense value. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest? ~ Seth Adam Smith
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If you're feeling discouraged and defeated - don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play - even in the midst of incredible darkness - can and will turn the tide of your own battles. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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There is nothing more real than light. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Paradoxically, the more you truly love that person, the more love you receive. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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I refuse to believe that the only reason we are here is to pay taxes and die. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Your life - your very existence - is a light! ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible! ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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This process of taking ownership of my life and circumstances has always been worth the fight. In a quote attributed to author Robert Louis Stevenson, he said: "In each of us, two natures are at war - the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose - what we want most to be, we are. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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The Good Gardener planted each of us here for a reason. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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This is the miracle of all miracles - when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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You are taking things far too literally. Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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I want you to know that marriage isn't for you. No true relationship of love is for you. Love is about the person you love. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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All churches are an echo of this - the Cathedral of Nature. ~ Seth Adam Smith
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Must necessarily be small; and those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse, and placed at once under the view of the spectator. In those great manufactures, on the contrary, which are destined to supply the great wants of the great body of the people, every different branch of the work employs so great a number of workmen that it is impossible to collect them all into the same workhouse ~ Adam Smith
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Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II ... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases. ~ John Chamberlain
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If there is any society
among robbers and murderers, they must at least ... abstain
from robbing and murdering one another. So beneficence
is less essential than justice is to the existence of society; a
lack of beneficence will make a society uncomfortable, but
the prevalence of injustice will utterly destroy it. ~ Adam Smith
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All the improvements in machinery, however, have by no means been the inventions of those who had occasion to use the machines. Many improvements have been made by the ingenuity of the makers of the machines, when to make them became the business of a peculiar trade; and some by that of those who are called philosophers or men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do anything, but to observe everything; and who, upon that account, are often capable of combining together the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects. In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches, each of which affords occupation to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as in every other business, improves dexterity, and saves time. Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it. ~ Adam Smith
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The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave. ~ Adam Smith
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All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist. ~ Adam Smith
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When you have knowledge, patience, and passion, and pair those with hard work, you will find success -- but don't ever forget about kindness. ~ Adam Kirk Smith
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As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state. ~ Adam Smith
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No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. In their eyes the merit of an object which is in any degree either useful or beautiful is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it, a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves.

Book I, Chapter 11 - Rent of Land, part II ~ Adam Smith
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness. ~ Adam Smith
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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 sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ~ Adam Smith
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The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed. ~ Adam Smith
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That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages. ~ Adam Smith
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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before. ~ Adam Smith
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To those who have been accustomed to the possession, or even to the hope of public admiration, all other pleasures sicken and decay. Of all the discarded statesmen who for their own ease have studied to get the better of ambition, and to despise those honours which they could no longer arrive at, how few have been able to succeed? ~ Adam Smith
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Although Adam Smith is today often regarded as a "conservative" figure, he in fact attacked some of the dominant ideas and interests of his own times. Moreover, the idea of a spontaneously self-equilibrating system - the market economy - first developed by the Physiocrats and later made part of the tradition of classical economics by Adam Smith, represented a radically new departure, not only in analysis of social causation but also in seeing a reduced role for political, intellectual, or other elites as guides or controllers of the masses. ~ Thomas Sowell
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force. ~ Adam Smith
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It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver. ~ Adam Smith
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. ~ Adam Smith
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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate. ~ Adam Smith
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Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. ~ Adam Smith
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In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. ~ Adam Smith
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The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. ~ Adam Smith
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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. ~ Adam Smith
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You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you. ~ Adam Kirk Smith
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And even though he's the father of capitalism and wrote the most famous and maybe the best book ever on why some nations are rich and others are poor, Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments wrote as eloquently as anyone ever has on the futility of pursuing money with the hope of finding happiness. How do you reconcile that with the fact that no one did more than Adam Smith to make capitalism and self-interest respectable? That is a puzzle I try to unravel toward the end of this book. Besides the emptiness of excessive materialism, Smith understood the potential we have for self-deception, the danger of unintended consequences, the seductive lure of fame and power, the limitations of human reason, and the unseen sources of what makes our lives both so complex and yet at times so orderly. The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a book of observations about what makes us tick. As a bonus, almost in passing, Smith tells us how to lead the good life in the fullest sense of that phrase. ~ Russ Roberts
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The mindset of antiquity lacked economic science and sociological theory. The ancients did rather well with political narrative, although, except for Thucydides, no first-rate political annalist and analyst emerged from the literary populace. But the ancients never showed a capacity, or even an inclination, to examine closely the urban world they themselves inhabited.
"Neither, however, was the medieval world in the 500s through the 1500s, which succeeded antiquity, much better at economics and sociology. It was only in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that this kind of thinking emerged with Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville in response to industrial and political revolutions.
"What interested the urban dwellers of antiquity were the gods. During the Hellenistic and Roman eras the theoretical capacity of the literate urban population was given over to thinking about the nature of divinity. The chief theological formats were polytheism (many gods); monotheism (one god); dualism (two dogs, one good, the other evil); and dying and reborn savior gods that could also be fitted into the other three categories of divinity. ~ Norman F. Cantor
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The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own ... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company. ~ Adam Smith
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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential. ~ James D. Watson
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When the price of cattle, for example, rises so high that it is as profitable to cultivate land in order to raise food for them as in order to raise food for man, it cannot well go higher. If it did, more corn land would soon be turned into pasture. The extension of tillage, by diminishing the quantity of wild pasture, diminishes the quantity of butcher's meat which the country naturally produces without labour or cultivation, and by increasing the number of those who have either corn, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of corn, to give in exchange for it, increases the demand. The price of butcher's meat, therefore, and consequently of cattle, must gradually rise till it gets so high that it becomes as profitable to employ the most fertile and best cultivated lands in raising food for them as in raising corn. But it must always be late in the progress of improvement before tillage can be so far extended as to raise the price of cattle to this height; and till it has got to this height, if the country is advancing at all, their price must be continually rising. There are, perhaps, some parts of Europe in which the price of cattle has not yet got to this height. It had not got to this height in any part of Scotland before the union. Had the Scotch cattle been always confined to the market of Scotland, in a country in which the quantity of land which can be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of cattle is so great in proportion to what can be applied to other p ~ Adam Smith
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Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord. ~ Adam Smith
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The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies. ~ Adam Smith
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To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving, the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, ~ Adam Smith
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It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves. ~ Adam Smith
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A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation. ~ Adam Smith
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I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted. ~ Adam Smith
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The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing. ~ Adam Smith
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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. ~ Adam Smith
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