Richard Whately Quotes
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
Citations
Whately, Richard. Introductory Lectures on Political Economy. B. Fellowes, 1831.
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Richard Whately was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.