George Jerome Waldo Goodman (b.1930) was an American author and economics broadcast commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith. He also wrote fiction under the name “George Goodman”.
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Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices—the vices of affectation and common lying.
—George Goodman
By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
—George Goodman
To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
—George Goodman
Topics: Benevolence
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
—George Goodman
Topics: Aspirations
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
—George Goodman
Topics: Science
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.
—George Goodman
Topics: Determination
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
—George Goodman
Topics: Perception
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.
—George Goodman
Topics: Wealth
The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.
—George Goodman
Topics: The Mind
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
—George Goodman
Topics: Humanity
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