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The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.

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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.

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The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

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We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

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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.

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When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

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In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

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But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

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All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

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Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

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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.

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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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