"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.167
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