A Defence of Ignorance (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from A Defence of Ignorance

You, if you please, may say molluscs; I won't. I broke a tooth yesterday in talking botany, and must avoid zoology to-day.' Our gold and silver, we rich folk might symbolise by rose and lily, but we don't. We think of our poor ancestors and call the money Tin.

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