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Richard Whately Economist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Feb 1787
  • Died: Oct 8, 1863

Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.