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Adam Smith1 quote
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. — Adam Smith · 1776Lord Acton1 quote
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. — Lord Acton · 1887Mark Twain1 quote
The chances are that a man cannot get into congress now without resorting to arts and means that should render him unfit to go there. — Mark Twain · 1873Raymond Chandler1 quote
Law is where you buy it in this town. — Raymond Chandler · 1940