Counting Quote by Thomas Malthus Download Open image “It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.” — Thomas Malthus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Counting Eight Employment Hours House Pleasant
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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
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