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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#laughter #met #needs #other #person

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. ↗

— Adam Smith

#baker #benevolence #butcher #dinner #expect

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. ↗

— Adam Smith

#far #flourishing #greater #happy #members

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. ↗

— Adam Smith

#first #labor #money #original #paid

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ↗

— Adam Smith

#become #country #demand #even #land

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. ↗

— Adam Smith

#adventure #approach #certain #certainty #greater

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. ↗

— Adam Smith

#city #had #i #pass #road

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. ↗

— Adam Smith

#another #bargains #bones #does #dog

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. ↗

— Adam Smith

#poor #poverty #real #their #tragedy

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. ↗

— Adam Smith

#finger #lays #never #pulse