"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.165
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