“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”

— Friedrich Engels

Anti-Dühring http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/quotes/index.htm (1878)

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