"When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?"

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Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.76

Jean-Baptiste Say

#Tree Quotes #Natural Quotes #Produce Quotes

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“I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.”
“Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.”
“Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.”
“The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.”
“There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.”
“I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.”

Source : Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.161, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.”

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