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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."

— Adam Smith

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Author: Adam Smith
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Adam Smith Quote - I am a beau in nothing but my books.

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Book Myself

Adam Smith Quote - A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.

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Demand

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Adam Smith Quote - In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

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Competition

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Adam Smith Quote - It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

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Injustice

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Adam Smith Quote - Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

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Dignity

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Adam Smith Quote - 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.

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Administration

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Adam Smith Quote - Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

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Adam Smith Quote - Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

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Adam Smith Quote - 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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Adam Smith Quote - When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

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Adam Smith Quote - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

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People

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Adam Smith Quote - A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

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Citizenship

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Adam Smith Quote - Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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Defense

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Adam Smith Quote - It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

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Active

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Active Country Greatness Production

Adam Smith Quote - In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

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Himself

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