Adam Smith College is a Scottish further and higher education college located over various campuses across the county of Fife.
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“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“I tell you, you’re ruining that boy. You’re ruining him. Why can’t you do as much for me?”
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