All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

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In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot in The Happy Life (1896)
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