"If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and murdering one another. So beneficenceis less essential than justice is to the existence of society; alack of beneficence will make a society uncomfortable, butthe prevalence of injustice will utterly destroy it."

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Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher, widely regarded as a foundational thinker in classical economics.

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