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"Bankruptcy is perhaps the greatest and most humiliating calamity which can befall an innocent man. The greater part of men, therefore, are sufficiently careful to avoid it. Some, indeed, do not avoid it; as some do not avoid the gallows." Adam Smith. Adam Sm ....

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.... his needs at the time. He left Oxford in 1746 due to the lack of intellectual stimulation, but not before expressing his views. "Smith's hostility to Oxford's educational inefficiency and expensiveness is well brought out in his letters of this period: Adam Smith to William Smith 'at the Duke of Argyle's House in Brutin St. Oxon: August 24, 1740. Sir, I yesterday receiv'd your letter with a bill of sixteen pounds enclos'd for which I humbly thank you, but more for the good advice you were pleas'd to give me. I am indeed afraid that my expenses at college must necessarily amount to a much greater sum this year than at any time hereafter, bec ....