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Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

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To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

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I happen to have a very bad fit of the tooth-ache at the time I am writing this.

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The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.

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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

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It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

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To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

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It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

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A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

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... where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...

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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

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The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

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Every exchange which takes place in a country, effects a distribution of its produce better adapted to the wants of society.

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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

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I think it will be found that experience,
the true source and foundation of all knowledge,
invariably confirms its truth.

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In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

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Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

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If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

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No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.

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I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

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But, fortunately for mankind, the neat rents of the land, under a system of private property, can never be diminished by the progress of cultivation.

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It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

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The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals, is the means of his support, is the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

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The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other vist the human race.

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