The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
(The Wealth of Nations - Book I, 1776)
Adam Smith
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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