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| text = The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch
of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from,
and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to
narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To
widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of
the public; but to narrow the competition must always be against it,
and can serve only to enable the dealers, by raising their profits
above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an
absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens. The proposal of any
new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ought
always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to
be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not
only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention.
It comes from an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same
with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and
even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many
occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.
| cite = [[Adam Smith]], "{{Link |The Wealth of Nations}}", last sentences in conclusion of Book 1.
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