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“When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter,--thinks I, that man has an axe to grind.”
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- Source:
- Who 'll turn Grindstones.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e028254bd50e444ae3552d79a65e3fa8dba36651225c4fcdab7db714251c473a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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