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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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
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
William Petty
In the next place, it will be asked, who shall pay these men I answer, everybody.
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.
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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.
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I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.
William Petty
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