Quote#Truth
A Shop-keeper will never get the more Custom by beating his…
Quote byJosiah Tucker · 1713–1799
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Letter from a Merchant in London to His Nephew in North America (1766), p. 46.
English (original)
A Shop-keeper will never get the more Custom by beating his Customers: And what is true of a Shop-keeper, is true of a Shop-keeping Nation.
— Josiah Tucker
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