“While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.” PersonsEndsPhilosophyHandsSeemsGuyConversationWaveCardsInstanceBitesDensePlaying Cards Author:Anton Chekhov
“One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.” MenMayImportantEndsLastsUsedTakenExampleDegreesBenefitsIncreaseInstanceMealsEnjoymentPortionsQuantityCommodityUtilityDecreaseAxioms Book:Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Source: Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons