"Such is the disposition of men, that we value what is speculative and precarious, more than what is safe and beneficial."
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Observations on the Trade to Flanders, Chart IX, page 40.
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William Playfair
William Playfair (22 September 1759 – 11 February 1823) was a Scottish engineer and political economist, the founder of graphical methods of statistics
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