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smouldering in me or else I should
When your mother came to me and asked me, it was still only smouldering in me, or else I should certainly, as an honest man, have refused to carry out her request….
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

success is measured out either in selling
But it is not on this basis that success is measured out either in selling or any other work calling for the use of brains.
— from Retail Shoe Salesmanship by Frank Butterworth

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