From one piece An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 7 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A worker who spends a whole life on a few simple, repetitive tasks generally loses the habit of thinkingTheir words
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
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By pursuing their own interest, people frequently serve society better than when they set out to serve itTheir words
By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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When people in the same trade meet, the talk usually turns to conspiring against the public or raising pricesTheir words
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.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
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The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth.
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We get our dinner from traders by appealing to their self-interest, not to their kindnessTheir words
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.
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Every person is rich or poor according to how far they can afford the necessities, conveniences and pleasures of lifeTheir words
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life.