"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!"
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Source: Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1973). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1833-december 1834”, Duke University Press Books
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