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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. – Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892

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