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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus
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Thomas Malthus
Age: 68 †
Born: 1766
Born: February 14
Died: 1834
Died: December 23
Anglican Priest
Demographer
Economist
Essayist
Mathematician
Scientist
Sociologist
Statistician
Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
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If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!
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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
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To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.
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