Every Man Is Rich Or Poor According

Mercantile Jealousy Is Excited, And Both Inflames, And Is Itself Inflamed, By The Violence Of National Animosity.

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 May Indeed Be Doubted Whether Butchers' Meet Is Anywhere A Necessary Of Life. Grain And Other Vegetables, With The Help Of Milk, Cheese, And Butter, Or Oil Where Butter Is Not To Be Had, Afford The Most Plentiful, The Most Wholesome, The Most Nourishing, And The Most Invigorating Diet. Decency Nowhere Requires That Any Man Should Eat Butchers' Meat.

Every Individual Necessarily Labors To Render The Annual Revenue Of Society As Great As He Can. He Generally Neither Intends To Promote The Public Interest, Nor Knows How Much He Is Promoting It. He Intends Only His Own Gain, And He Is, In This, As In Many Other Cases, Led By An Invisible Hand To Promote An End Which Was Not Part Of His Intention.

Fear Is In Almost All Cases A Wretched Instrument Of Government, And Ought In Particular Never To Be Employed Against Any Order Of Men Who Have The Smallest Pretensions To Independency.