Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.
Thomas MalthusInstead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.
Thomas MalthusThe finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.
Thomas MalthusIt is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Thomas Malthus