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Quote by Adam Smith
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the

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. – Adam Smith

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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – Adam Smith

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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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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. – Adam Smith

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I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. Its that simple. – Betty White

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The forgotten man… He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. – William Graham Sumner

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