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Adam Smith:"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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love."source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationseconomics, selflessness, money, exchange, business

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