The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.
Just as the supposed number may differ from the true number by fully 100, 150, or even 200 in a flock of 600 sheep, so may I be even more out of my reckoning in the case of these very little animalcules.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.