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Capitals Are Increased By Parsimony, And Diminished By Prodigalityand Misconduct. By What A Frugal Man Annually Saves He Not Onlyaffords Maintenance To An Additional Number Of Productive Hands?but?he Establishes As It Were A Perpetual Fund For The Maintenance Of An Equal Number In All Times To Come.

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. It Is Impossible Indeed To Prevent Such Meetings, By Any Law Which Either Could Be Executed, Or Would Be Consistent With Liberty Or Justice. But Though The Law Cannot Hinder People Of The Same Trade From Sometimes Assembling Together, It Ought To Do Nothing To Facilitate Such Assemblies; Much Less To Render Them Necessary.

Wonder... And Not Any Expectation Of Advantage From Its Discoveries, Is The First Principle Which Prompts Mankind To The Study Of Philosophy, Of That Science Which Pretends To Lay Open The Concealed Connections That Unite The Various Appearances Of Nature.

The Uniform, Constant, And Uninterrupted Effort Of Every Man To Better His Condition . . . Is Frequently Powerful Enough To Maintain The Natural Progress Of Things Toward Improvement, In Spite Of The Extravagance Of Government, And Of The Greatest Errors Of Administration.

To Expect, Indeed, That The Freedom Of Trade Should Ever Be Entirely Restored In Great Britain, Is As Absurd As To Expect That An Oceana Or Utopia Should Never Be Established In It.