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— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey"Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary."
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Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.
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