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The rich, seeking only their own ends, are led to share necessities nearly as an equal division would
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What Adam Smith actually said
- Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790)
They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
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↗The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759; Dublin printing of 1777)gutenberg.org
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