| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 54306 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist. The Wealth of Nations, vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1776). |
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