necessaries Author: Adam Smith Copy Quote More from Adam Smith “The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise…” “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that w…” “Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature of …” “To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in whi…”