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Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those… — Peter York
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement? — William John Locke
I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way… — Bill Walton
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a… — B. H. Liddell Hart
If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours? — Ernie J Zelinski
Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away. — James Hunter
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of… — Brennan Manning
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you… — Lev Grossman
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. — Horace
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it. — Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught. — Benjamin Franklin
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring… — William Shakespeare
I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make… — Rita Rudner
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience. — Isak Dinesen
The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. — Juvenal
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. — Walter Raleigh
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on… — Emma Goldman
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for… — William Cowper
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. — Alexander Pope
Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to… — Aleksandr Karelin

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