“And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.”

— Edwin Lefèvre , book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter IX, p. 103

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American journalist 1871–1943

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