No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
(The Wealth of Nations, 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. One who is master of all his exercises has no aversion to measure his strength and activity with the strongest.
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