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be sold

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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. William Cowper

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him. Frank Lloyd Wright

I deal with spiritual truth which should never be sold and need never be bought. When you are ready it will be given. Peace Pilgrim

If there was not bad taste, goods would not be sold. Panamanian Proverb

Those bosoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready-made. German Proverb

If everyone thought the same way, no goods would ever be sold. Libyan Proverb

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