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 I, for one, sir, am content to learn nothing from you but the art and science of fish for breakfast. Be content, sir, to rival the Bœotians, whose redeeming virtue was in fish, touching which point you may consult Aristophanes and his scholiast in the passage of Lysistrata,, and leave the name of Athenians to those who have a sense of the beautiful, and a perception of metrical quantity.

Then, sir, I presume you set no value on the right principles of rent, profit, wages, and currency?

My principles, sir, in these things are, to