When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct. (Henry David Thoreau)

When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

Henry David Thoreau

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