"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!"
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Source: Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.8
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