"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.36
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