William Petty

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

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.

Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and not in commodities at the most convenient seasons.

As for religion, I die in the profession of that faith, and in the practice of such worship as I find establish... (more William Petty quotes)

Books about William Petty

	The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together With the Observations upon the Bills of Mortality/Two Volumes in One (Reprints of Economic Classics) by William Petty Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	On the Origins of Classical Economics: Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, 4) by To Aspromourgos Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	Collected Works of William Petty (Collected Works) by T. Hutchinson Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment

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