"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space."
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Source: Chartism ch. 2 (1839) See Disraeli 38
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