Anna Gordon Brown

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    A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction ... do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
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    He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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