A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own. - Adam Smith

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Adam Smith: "A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own."

Adam Smith's Quotations

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Acquire	Beyond	Interest	Labour
Little	Maintenance	Other	Person
Possible	Property	Purchase	Squeezed
Sufficient	Violence	Whatever	Work

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