The Public Buys Its Opinions As It Buys Its Meat, Or Takes In Its Milk, On The Principle That It Is Cheaper To Do This Than To Keep A Cow.

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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk,
on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So
it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
-- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

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