Adam Smith：The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter VII, Paragraph 1400

This double effect of drawing capital from all other trades, and of raising the rate of profit somewhat higher than it otherwise would have been in all trades, was not only produced by this monopoly upon its first establishment, but has continued to be produced by it ever since.

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