Quote by Adam Smith
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workma

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. – 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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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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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. – Adam Smith

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Im very much afraid of being mad – thats my one fear. – Sting

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My biggest fear in life is to be average. – M. Night Shyamalan

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The abandoned infants cry is rage, not fear. – Robert Anton Wilson

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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? – James Thurber

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If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. – Thomas Jefferson

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. – Arthur Miller

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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. – B. R. Ambedkar

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The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. – James K. Polk

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