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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.

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-- Samuel Butler (b), (Dec 4 1835-1902), English novelist, satirist, scholar; He was known for his ironic, witty semi-autobiographical novel, Way of All Flesh, and Erewhon, 1872.

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