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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Adam Smith
Corn, Silver
Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.139

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

Adam Smith
Gold, Benefits, Silver
Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.400, Harriman House Limited

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