I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. (Thomas Carlyle)

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Thomas Carlyle

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