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The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and…
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Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
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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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An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it…
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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…
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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…
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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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Money is the best rule of commerce.
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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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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an…
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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…
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Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or…
— Elizabeth I
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
— William Petty
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And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that…
— Bible
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Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of…
— Bible
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Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the…
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Forasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which…
— Cities
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