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Facts about William Petty SummaryWilliam Petty was a famous Economist from England, who lived between May 27, 1623 and December 16, 1687.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by William, under the main topic Finance.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Edward Young, John Tillotson, William Penn, Blaise Pascal, John Wilmot, Anthony Collins, John Arbuthnot, Christopher Wren, Francis Atterbury, Jean Philippe Rameau, Edmond Halley, Henry St. John, Nicolas Boileau, Stanislaus I, Angelus Silesius, Richard Blackmore, Robert Boyle, Eustace Budgell, John Philips, Edward Teach Famous quotes by William Petty (12)  "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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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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