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salesman

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One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman. Bjarne Stroustrup

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. Allen Tate

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman. John D. MacDonald

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed. Dougray Scott

The thief who isn't caught is an honest salesman. Romanian Proverb

A salesman has pig's soul, sheep's brain and dog's conscience. Finnish Proverb

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