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The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

— Robert Heilbroner The Worldly Philosophers (1953)

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He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.

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It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

The Worldly Philosophers (1953)

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

The Worldly Philosophers (1953)

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.

The Worldly Philosophers (1953)

Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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