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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. ↗

— Adam Smith

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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. ↗

— Adam Smith

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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me. ↗

— Anna Nicole Smith

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