"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him"."
Source: Past and Present: Chartism.
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Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher and historian known for his influential works on history and heroism, particularly 'On Heroes and Hero Worship.'
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"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
"Endurance is patience concentrated."
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."