Notable Quote: Adam Smith - Granite Grok

Notable Quote: Adam Smith

Adam Smith - Notable QuoteIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their own interest.  We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.  Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.  Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely.  The charity of well-disposed people, indeed, supplies him with the whole fund of his subsistence.  But though this principle ultimately provides him with all the necessaries of life, which he has occasion for, it neither does nor can provide him with them as he has occasion for them.

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