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Adam Smith Quotes: All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
         

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.


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All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
         



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