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ellauri077.html on line 863: Bigger, better, higher, humbler. The translation of Klopstock, quite early, contemporaneous, to Swedish is by the Rector of Klara skola. Mr. Humble bought a copy from Sweden wanting to translate Messias suomeksi.
ellauri107.html on line 466: He serenely believed that the one purpose of the real-estate business was to make money for George F. Babbitt. True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of Unselfish Public Service, the Broker's Obligation to Keep Inviolate the Trust of His Clients, and a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night. These virtues awakened Confidence, and enabled you to handle Bigger Propositions. But they didn't imply that you were to be impractical and refuse to take twice the value of a house if a buyer was such an idiot that he didn't jew you down on the asking-price.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 163: Päätyö: Global Paradox: The Bigger the Economy´s Big Players, the More Powerless Its Smallest Players. William ToMorrow & Company, Inc., 1994
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