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" The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. "

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" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "

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" Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. "

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" In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. "

" Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. "