The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
(The Wealth of Nations - Book I, 1776)

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759)

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759)

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

Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations, 1776)

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