"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (1970). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”
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