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Money is the best rule of commerce.
William Petty / Economist
Best
Finance
Money
Commerce
Rule
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The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
William Petty / Economist
Buying
Interest
Selling
Banks
Exchange
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Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
William Petty / Economist
Soldier
Also
Only
Every
Merchant
Navigator
Seaman
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No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
William Petty / Economist
Men
Double Standard
Pay
Twice
Double
Pays
Same Thing
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I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
William Petty / Economist
Men
Demonstration
Mathematical
Said
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A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
William Petty / Economist
Acres
Soul
Ten
Thousand
Better More Than
Feed
Effect
Souls
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For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.
William Petty / Economist
Navigators
Seamen
Soldier
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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 is an instrument and tool of gain.
William Petty / Economist
House
Mean
Tools
Double
Gain
Instrument
Viz
Wherein
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Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
William Petty / Economist
Change
Loss
Pieces
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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 Evil as old as the World.
William Petty / Economist
Envious
Evil
World
Naturally
Poorer
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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 the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
William Petty / Economist
Men
Candid
Etc
Impatient
Judgement
Race
Correction
Happening
Shall
Swift
Wherefore
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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 means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
William Petty / Economist
Men
War
Causes
Civil War
Mean
Wealth
Beg
Civil
Provided
Steal
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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.
William Petty / Economist
Compensation
Demand
Inconvenience
Condition
Admit
Giveth
Wherefore
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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 lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
William Petty / Economist
Active
Consequence
Father
Labor
Land
Members
Mother
Opinion
Wealth
Principle
Punish
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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.
William Petty / Economist
Bills
Numbers
People
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It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.
William Petty / Economist
Bears
Soil
Years
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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 intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.
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Science
Taken
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