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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

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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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Feathers
Scale
Scales
Opposite
Opposites
Nothing
Feather

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