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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. - [Business] Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. - [Nationalism] Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. - [Consumption] In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. - [Education] Invention is the mother of necessity. - [Invention] The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. - [Dogs] The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. - [Leisure]
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