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To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. – 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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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

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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. – John Heywood, 1565

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Nature does nothing uselessly. – Aristotle

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy

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