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The Natural Effort Of Every Individual To Better His Own Condition Is So Powerful That It Is Alone, And Without Any Assistance, Capable Not Only Of Carrying On The Society To Wealth And Prosperity, But Of Surmounting 100 Impertinent Obstructions With Which The Folly Of Human Laws Too Often Encumbers Its Operations.

In Public, As Well As In Private Expences, Great Wealth May, Perhaps, Frequently Be Admitted As An Apology For Great Folly.

How Selfish Soever Man May Be Supposed, There Are Evidently Some Principles In His Nature, Which Interest Him In The Fortune Of Others, And Render Their Happiness Necessary To Him, Though He Derives Nothing From It, Except The Pleasure Of Seeing It.

Little Else Is Requisite To Carry A State To The Highest Degree Of Opulence From The Lowest Barbarism But Peace, Easy Taxes, And A Tolerable Administration Of Justice: All The Rest Being Brought About By The Natural Course Of Things.

Beneficence Is Always Free, It Cannot Be Extorted By Force.