All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.

William Cullen Bryant
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Adam Smith said, “All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.” In this quote, he is talking about how small a percentage of the entire human population is. Many people live with their heads down. They don’t take advantage of everything that can be done to help improve the world. It just takes a small percentage of us to make a difference.

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