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" Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. "
Adventure
Lottery
Lose
" All money is a matter of belief. "
Matter
Money
Finance
" 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. "
Never
Men
Love
" Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. "
End
Purpose
Production
" Defense is superior to opulence. "
Defense
Opulence
Superior
" 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. "
Ambition
Speech
Desire
" Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. "
Happiness
Lays
Never
" Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. "
Generosity
Humanity
Man
" I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. "
Much
Never
Known
" 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. "
Country
Active
Operations
" It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. "
Expect
Dinner
Business
" Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. "
Labor
Money
Original
" 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. "
Gold
Silver
Wealth
" 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. "
Natural
Peace
Rest
" Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. "
Dog
Other
Man
" No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. "
Than
Common
Money
" No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. "
Far
Society
Poor
" On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. "
Road
Valley
Through
" Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. "
God
Christian
Dying
" Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. "
Us
Innocence
Justice
" Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. "
Science
Poison
Enthusiasm
" 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. "
Men
Truck
Race
" The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. "
Fear
Real
Over
" The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. "
Tragedy
Poverty
Real
" The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. "
Opinion
Detail
Facts
" This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. "
Cases
Imagination
Facts
" To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. "
Nature
Human Nature
Feel
" Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. "
Because
Conscience
More
" What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? "
Debt
Conscience
Man
" With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. "
Rich People
Rich
People
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