QuoteQuest“It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Adam Smith
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Chapter II
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Smith, Adam. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Adam Smith. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
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