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Quote by Adam Smith
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and

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. – Adam Smith

Other quotes by Adam Smith

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

Category:
Peace
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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

Category:
Labor Day
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Adam Smith
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor. – Peter Segal

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Humor

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. – E. B. White

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Humor

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. – Mason Cooley

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Humor

I realized women and humor were linked very closely. – Craig Ferguson

Category:
Humor

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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. – Ben Stein

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Success

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow

Category:
America