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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? – 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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Peace
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Adam Smith
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. – Adam Smith

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Empire
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Adam Smith
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A womans heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. – George Eliot

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Happiness

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldnt want to ruin their happiness – even if that happiness is ignorance. – Katy Perry

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Happiness

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness

I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. – Abd-El-Raham

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Happiness

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. – Edmund Burke

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Flattery

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed. – Vaclav Klaus

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Experience

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. – Mark Knopfler

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Poetry

You know, I dont really do that much looking inside me when Im working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change. – Steven Spielberg

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Change