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"With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue."
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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"You can love again."
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"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."
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"My life is wondrous, and I appreciate it every day!"
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"We savour on great memories of happy times."
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"You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have."
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"A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream."
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"That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth."
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"With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue."
Happiness
"The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness."
Nature
"One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection."
Government
"Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise."
Nature
"We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy."
Science
"But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied."
Science
"Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other."
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"The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement."
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"The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction."
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