“Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people, indeed, supplies him with the funds…but the greater part of his occasional wants are supplied in the same manner as those of other people, by treaty, by barter, and by purchase. With the money which one man gives him he purchases either food, clothes, or lodging.”— Adam Smith
