The question is, whether it procures most pain or pleasure?
问题是,它带来的是最多的痛苦还是最多的快乐?
国富论(四)
It is thus that the single advantage which the monopoly procures to a single order of men, is in many different ways hurtful to the general interest of the country.
因此,垄断为单一等级的人带来的单一优势,会以多种不同的方式损害国家的整体利益。
国富论(三)
As subsistence is, in the nature of things, prior to conveniency and luxury, so the industry which procures the former, must necessarily be prior to that which ministers to the latter.