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To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195
To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.