"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."

Evil, Old, Will, World

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"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."

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"An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."

William Petty, English Economist

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"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

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"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."

Plutarch, Greek Philosopher

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"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

Marie Curie, Polish Scientist

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"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."

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"Money is the best rule of commerce."

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"I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration."

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"The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange."

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"A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect."

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"Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient."

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"Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves."

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"No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once."

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"Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers."

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"Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself."

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