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01c. 1748 AD

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Adam Smith / quote

02c. 1748 AD

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Adam Smith / quote

03c. 1748 AD

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.

Adam Smith / quote

04c. 1748 AD

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 / quote

05c. 1748 AD

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith / quote