The Essays of Adam Smith: Part II, SEC. III, Chapter II - Of the Extent of this Influence of Fortune

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Chapter II. Of the Extent of this Influence of Fortune.

THE effect of this influence of fortune is, first, to diminish our sense of the merit or demerit of those actions which arose from the most laudable or blamable intentions, when they fail of producing their proposed effects: and, secondly, to increase our sense of the merit or demerit of 

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