"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press
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