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William Petty

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

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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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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"Produce great men, the rest follows."

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"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

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"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

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"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

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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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"Money is the best rule of commerce."
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"An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain."
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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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"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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"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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"I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration."
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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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"The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange."
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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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