Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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