AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. (Ambrose Bierce)

AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Ambrose Bierce

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