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A Very Poor Man May Be Said In Some Sense To Have A Demand For A Coach And Six; He Might Like To Have It; But His Demand Is Not An Effectual Demand, As The Commodity Can Never Be Brought To Market In Order To Satisfy It.

Ask Any Rich Man Of Common Prudence To Which Of The Two Sorts Of People He Has Lent The Greater Part Of His Stock, To Those Who, He Thinks, Will Employ It Profitably, Or To Those Who Will Spend It Idly, And He Will Laugh At You For Proposing The Question.

The Liberal Reward Of Labor, Therefore, As It Is The Necessary Effect, So It Is The Natural Symptom Of Increasing National Wealth. The Scanty Maintenance Of The Laboring Poor, On The Other Hand, Is The Natural Symptom That Things Are At A Stand, And Their Starving Condition That They Going Backwards Fast.

The Great Affair, We Always Find, Is To Get Money.

The Theory That Can Absorb The Greatest Number Of Facts, And Persist In Doing So, Generation After Generation, Through All Changes Of Opinion And Detail, Is The One That Must Rule All Observation.