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Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

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“Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well. The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

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