You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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America is not a young land it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. I don't have any whisky, may be a fact but it is not a truth.
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