Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On June 5, 2012 @ 9:59 am In Adam Smith,Hubris and humility | Comments Disabled
… is from page 404 of Liberty Fund’s 1976 edition of Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments [1]:
The frequent, and often wonderful, success of the most ignorant quacks and imposters, both civil and religious, sufficiently demonstrate how easily the multitude are imposed upon by the most extravagant and groundless pretensions.
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