If great cities are naturally apt to remove their seats, I ask, which way I say, in the case of London it must be westward... If it follow from hence that the palaces of the greatest men will remove westward, it will also naturally follow that the dwelling of others who depend upon them will creep after them.
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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
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
William Petty
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
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.
William Petty
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
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
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