What an excellent work is that with which our common friend, Mr Adam Smith, has enriched the public!—an extensive science in a single book, and the most profound ideas expressed in the most perspicuous language.
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Edward Gibbon to Adam Ferguson after the publication of the Wealth of Nations (1 April 1776), quoted in The Letters of Edward Gibbon, Volume Two: 1774–1784, ed. J. E. Norton (1956), p. 101