English - Economist | February 13, 1766 - December 23, 1834
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
Thomas Malthus
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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
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The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
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The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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