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«Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.»
Author: William Petty
«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.»
Author: William Petty
«I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.»
Author: William Petty
«We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religion the principal use of a church is to preach in.»
Author: William Petty
«In the next place, it will be asked, who shall pay these men? I answer, everybody.»
Author: William Petty
«It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds.»
Author: William Petty
«Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.»
Author: William Petty
«The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.»
Author: William Petty
«No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.»
Author: William Petty
«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.»
Author: William Petty
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