Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
From Adam Smith
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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 ambition.
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.
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.
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