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| 4 | 53 | How well they display the View more quotes about house">house's merchandise, sometimes subtly, so cleverly, sometimes brazenly, so boldly, invitingly, seductively! Many men who lack the coin to make a realistic bid frequent the emporia, the selling wagons, the shelves, the cages, the platforms, the camps, and barns, to gather the foods on which dreams will live. |
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| 4 | 50 | A well- presented item, other things being equal, is likely to bring a better price, and a richer master, with the likelihood of an easier life, less work, and greater prestige. |
| 4 | 51 | Too, vanity courses brightly, rushing unobstructed, amongst such goods, familiar with such things, and each desires to win a fine price, and, particularly, one better than that garnered by rivals, or others of the house. |
| 4 | 52 | Who does not wish to be the most beautiful, the most desirable? How proud is a top-price item! It is little wonder then that experienced items will compete on the block to excite buyers and outdo one another. |
| 4 | 53 | How well they display the house's merchandise, sometimes subtly, so cleverly, sometimes brazenly, so boldly, invitingly, seductively! Many men who lack the coin to make a realistic bid frequent the emporia, the selling wagons, the shelves, the cages, the platforms, the camps, and barns, to gather the foods on which dreams will live. |
| 4 | 54 | Yet many items are cheap, and not just pot girls or kettle-and-mat girls, and might be afforded even within the means of a light purse. |
| 4 | 55 | Sometimes a rich man adjudges the performance of an arrogant, vain, marvelously beautiful item to be intrinsically meretricious, to be hollow, and hypocritical, even fraudulent. |
| 4 | 56 | It may call forth moans of anguish from some men in the crowd but the connoisseur recognizes its duplicity. |