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.

Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (1776)
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, Book I
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