It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
“I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.”
“Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.”