Quote#Wisdom
A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window
Quote byGeorge Ade · 1866–1944
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Fable of the Wise Piker Who Had the Kind of Talk That Went", Forty Modern Fables (1901).
English (original)
A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window.
— George Ade
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