The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
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He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book -- it is a plaything.
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