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“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
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Verse 14. Buyer. This is the common practice; yet it is not without exceptions. Saint Augustine (Trin. xiii. 3.) observes, that the mountebank having promised to tell what every person had in his heart, many came to the theatre, when he told them that they all wished to by cheap, and to sell dear. They all applauded the remark. Calmet.—Septuagint is here defective. Bible.
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