Who said it, Adam Smith or Karl Marx?

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  1. "Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased."
  2. "As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
  3. "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
  4. "Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people."
  5. "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."
  6. "It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures."
  7. "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."
  8. "The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever."
  9. "The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons."
  10. "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."
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