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To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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Jean-Baptiste Say (5 January 1767 – 15 November 1832) was a French economist and businessman. He was said to have held classically liberal views. He is most remembered today for Say's Law.

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Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

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Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence. - Jean-Baptiste Say

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