"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!"
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Source: 1840 Letter to John Sterling, collected in New Letters of Carlyle (1904), vol.1.
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