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.
~William Petty

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As for religion, I die in the profession of that faith, and in the practice of such worship as I find established by the law of my country.
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Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
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I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
~William Petty

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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.
~William Petty

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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 Evil as old as the World.
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The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
~William Petty

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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.
~William Petty

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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.
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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

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