merriment

"people put their life and health at risk for the merriment of the couch potatoes"This is not true.

Chevy Chase made him out to be a klutz and un-athletic on SNL to great merriment.

I don't take any merriment in the fact that things are not going well for another entrepreneur, so I hope they turn things around.

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public"

And many people put on a happy face for the holidays while feeling worse than ever because the merriment around them often reminds them how empty and unhappy they are.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith:> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, without the conversation ending in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Yes, there's the famous quote "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

I'm not so sure Smith thought it was cool:"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith got away with it in Wealth of Nations: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

That would be amazing!I'm imagining a sci-fi novel where aliens have extended their own lives but not improved their memory, so after 5 million years they reach their destination doing nothing but singing and merriment on the way.

Reading some of the comments here reminds me of the Adam Smith quote:"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

But it's equally crazy not to make a reasonable inquiry into the possibility that you are being deceived by any person or group with the means, motive and oppurtunity to do so."People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.

Indeed, the second most observation in the book, after the one about the fact that butchers and bakers are motivated by self-interest rather than generosity, is that “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

" This institutional reality occurs even if you and I are in that 1%.Even when Adam Smith uses the term "conspiracy", it can still really be institutional analysis: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.