Adam Smith quote: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy ...

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

~ Adam Smith ~

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