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William Playfair Quotes

d. 1823 Scotland

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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Such is the disposition of men, that we value what is speculative and precarious, more than what is safe and beneficial.

All those things that make a nation richer, stronger, or more happy; or that tend to exalt national character, but that will not pay individuals, deserve public encouragement.

Men in general are very slow to enter into what is reckoned a new thing; and there seems to be a very universal as well as great reluctance to undergo the drudgery of acquiring information that seems not to be absolutely necessary.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Playfair (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.