"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."

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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."

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"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."

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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."

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