"I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them."

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson