After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.
 Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776). copy citation

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Author Adam Smith
Source The Wealth of Nations
Topic human nature man inconstancy
Date 1776
Language English
Reference An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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