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By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I ha...more

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Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the dilig...more

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A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained by a small toll upon the carriages which make use o...more

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The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principl...more

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Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular administration of justice, in which the people do not f...more