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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky but the stars are there and will reappear.
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