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...respectable painting; sufficiently powdered with dust and old-looking, tell the world about it, and the hoax is sure to find a buyer. The work may not succeed in the distinction of being called a Titian or a Rembrandt for long, but if advertised properly is sure to fool someone who knows nothing about art and buys for the name alone. Under modern methods of publicity, "finds" can be staged which will outdo Mark Twain's story of the success of Francois Millet. Even the sacro-sanct,--the critics,--are far from infallible. The world has not yet forgotten...
Popular ballot, however, has not done its worst with the Senate--yet. It probably will keep on electing men of mature age--but. "There's no fool like...
Congress, our national dentist, at last seems to have discovered a method of painless extraction of the bonus. The intricate plan for the issuing of certificates of indebtedness to veterans apparently was conceived at one of those moments, suggested by Lincoln, when "you can fool all of the people"; for the lightness of the protest against the proposal shows that exceedingly slight popular antagonism has been aroused...
...promises--the excessive conservatism of the farming class. In every nation the farmer is the hide-boundest of the hide-bound. What was good enough for the farmer's grandfather and for his grandfather before him is good enough for him; he wants none of these "fool new-fangled" notions. But he cannot get away from facts, and he cannot keep his eyes shut always. All farmers are much the same, be they Russian or whatever; our western farmer is very conservative, and the one who keeps to his horses will rail against the one who uses a tractor...
...record and gaining the world's rough-riding championship for that year--the reward which had been promised to anyone who could ride Sharkey for more than the conventional time. Mr. Furlong attributed his success to a study of "bull-riding psychology" by which he was able to fool himself into thinking his "joints weren't really coming apart, but only felt that way", and so to "concentrate on his finger ends and hang...