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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

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

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The secret to humor is surprise. – Aristotle

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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges. – Thomas W. Higginson

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If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. Its easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. – Alan Thicke

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