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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. "
House
Way
Nature
" A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. "
Feed
Better
Effect
" 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. "
Wealth
War
Hands
" Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. "
Every
Seaman
Merchant
" 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. "
Remember
Father
Labor
" I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. "
Men
Man
About
" Money is the best rule of commerce. "
Commerce
Rule
Money
" No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. "
Man
Twice
Nothing
" 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. "
Will
World
Some
" The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. "
Trade
Buying
Banks
" 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. "
Time
Race
Never
" 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. "
Compensation
Time
Money
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