Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
(The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759)

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759)

The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations - Book I, 1776)

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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