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The Wealth of Nations Quotes

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Source:(The Modern Library, ed. 1937), Book I, Chapter X, Part II, Page 128
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  • Book: The Wealth of Nations
  • Writer: Adam Smith
  • Genre: Philosophy, Economics
  • Published: 1776
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