Good old-fashioned Greed
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- AnotherFairportfan
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Good old-fashioned Greed
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- AnotherFairportfan
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Re: Good old-fashioned Greed
"You can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break, and never wise up a chump. My Motto."
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Re: Good old-fashioned Greed
What was the old line again...
“Nobody ever lost a nickel betting against the intelligence of the American public.”
–P.T. Barnum
“Nobody ever lost a nickel betting against the intelligence of the American public.”
–P.T. Barnum
- AnotherFairportfan
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Re: Good old-fashioned Greed
Sounds more like Mencken to me - sort of like a short paraphrase of something i know that be said.ShneekeyTheLost wrote:What was the old line again...
“Nobody ever lost a nickel betting against the intelligence of the American public.”
–P.T. Barnum
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
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Re: Good old-fashioned Greed
I do believe you are, in fact, correct.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Sounds more like Mencken to me - sort of like a short paraphrase of something i know that be said.ShneekeyTheLost wrote:What was the old line again...
“Nobody ever lost a nickel betting against the intelligence of the American public.”
–P.T. Barnum
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
- H.L. Mencken
- AnotherFairportfan
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Re: Good old-fashioned Greed
Not that i doubt for a New York Second that old Phineas Taylor would have said it the way you had it...ShneekeyTheLost wrote:I do believe you are, in fact, correct.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Sounds more like Mencken to me - sort of like a short paraphrase of something i know that be said.ShneekeyTheLost wrote:What was the old line again...
“Nobody ever lost a nickel betting against the intelligence of the American public.”
–P.T. Barnum
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
- H.L. Mencken
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
Re: Good old-fashioned Greed
I love this quote - just in point.AnotherFairportfan wrote:"You can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break, and never wise up a chump. My Motto."
To want to, is to be able to.