The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.
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As quoted in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1845) by John Campbell, Vol. x. Chap. 212; this precedes the use by Benjamin Disraeli of "The sweet simplicity of the three per cents", in Endymion (1880)William Scott Stowell
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The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.
Benjamin Disraeli
Elegant as simplicity, and warm
As ecstasy.William Cowper
Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do it and then see what might be more elegant, and do it again, you might, after an unknown number of iterations, get something that is very elegant.
Erik Naggum
Simplicity is the touchstone in finding new physical laws. ... If it's elegant, then it's a rough rule of thumb: you're on the right track.
Kip Thorne
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!
Maurice Duplessis
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