Adam Smith — "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we …"

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, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Adam Smith — Adam Smith Early Modern · Wealth of Nations, capitalism

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The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter II

Date: 1776

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