"We will indulge in all those miscellaneous commercial operations, which when conducted on a small scale are called thieving, but a large scale, financing."

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“Nobody but a highlander can go about without his trousers.”

“I haven't seen this chap's boots yet, but I should say from his knock he's a good opinion of himself.”

“Whenever I had spotted a real good thing, my funds would never run to paper and stamps to apply for shares.”

“Be speedy, for I was born under a thirsty star.”

“You see around you the old masters. They were called masters, as you are doubtless aware, because they taught drawing; the epithet old was applied on account of the general leeriness of their dispositions.”

“All apartments are eligible as I ever heard tell of, just as all shopkeepers, barring that publican next door, are respectable.”

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