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This Great Increase Of The Quantity Of Work Which, In Consequence Of The Division Of Labour, The Same Number Of People Are Capable Of Performing, Is Owing To Three Different Circumstances; First, To The Increase Of Dexterity In Every Particular Workman; Secondly, To The Saving Of The Time Which Is Commonly Lost In Passing From One Species Of Work To Another; And Lastly, To The Invention Of A Great Number Of Machines Which Facilitate And Abridge Labour, And Enable One Man To Do The Work Of Many.

We Are But One Of The Multitude, In No Respect Better Than Any Other In It.

Civil Government, So Far As It Is Instituted For The Security Of Property, Is In Reality Instituted For The Defense Of The Rich Against The Poor, Or Of Those Who Have Some Property Against Those Who Have None At All.

The Man Of System Is Apt To Be Very Wise In His Own Conceit. In The Great Chess Board Of Human Society, Every Single Piece Has A Principle Of Motion Of Its Own Altogether Different From That Which The Legislature Might Choose To Impress Upon It

Consumption Is The Sole End And Purpose Of All Production; And The Interest Of The Producer Ought To Be Attended To Only So Far As It May Be Necessary For Promoting That Of The Consumer. The Maxim Is So Perfectly Self-evident That It Would Be Absurd To Attempt To Prove It. But In The Mercantile System The Interest Of The Consumer Is Almost Constantly Sacrificed To That Of The Producer; And It Seems To Consider Production, And Not Consumption, As The Ultimate End And Object Of All Industry And Commerce.