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"The Theory of Moral Sentiments"
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Date: 1761
"It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counteracting the strongest impluses of self-love."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)