"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293
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