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• No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth the attending.
  -- Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Natio...
• People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment or diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or some contrivance to raise prices.
  -- Adam Smith (1723-1790), "Wealth of Natio...
• It is not by the importation of gold and silver, that the discovery of America has enriched Europe.
  ...The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe....
• Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. -- Roy L. Smith
• The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
  -- John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790...
• The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
  -- Adam Smith (1723-1790)...
• You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• The government never really goes into business, for it never makes ends meet.
  And that is the first requisite. It just mixes a little business with a lot of politics and no one ever gets a chance to find out what is actually going on....
• It is almost worth while to be cheated; people's little frauds have an interest which amply repays what they cost us.
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith...