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Updated: October 11, 2025
"Fools!" muttered Georg. "That Little People government they'll have a revolution of their own to fight at this rate. Can't you see what Tarrano is doing? Working everywhere with propaganda working on the public the gullible public ready always to swallow anything " On Earth, lay the crisis. Our own governments only had taken a firm stand. What could Tarrano do with this ultimatum?
But the most amazing class comprises the patent-medicine men, who are usually not doctors at all, but buy from some one a "cure" and then advertise it, spending in one instance which I investigated one million dollars a year. Every advantageous wall, stone, or cliff in America will be posted. You see the name at every turn, and the gullible Americans bite, chew, and swallow.
A man's life and property are well protected here at little cost, and he can go where he likes and do what he likes provided he don't trespass on his neighbour. "I guess that's enough for any on us, now ain't it?" No. Gulling a Bluenose. "I allot," said Mr. Slick, "that the Bluenoses are the most gullible folks on the face of the airth rigular soft horns, that's a fact.
But, as he told himself, on almost every occasion that he went to Leroux's bank, he was deliberately throwing money away, deliberately closing his eyes to the good fortune which this careless and gullible man cast in his path.
The real foundation for that career may have been laid in an American city. But ambitious young Americans, instead of seeking out that teacher, will flock to the foreign one. In such matters we are the most gullible people on the face of the earth.
The only token of Colonel Clay's presence vouchsafed us in the city was one of his customary insulting notes. It was conceived as follows: "O ETERNAL GULLIBLE! Since I saw you on Lake George, I have run back to London, and promptly come out again.
The sort of thing she was able to do, to say, was an article for which there was more and more demand fluent, pretty, third-rate palaver, conscious or unconscious perfected humbug; the stupid, gregarious, gullible public, the enlightened democracy of his native land, could swallow unlimited draughts of it.
The point of the narrative is, that a facetious old gentleman named Captain Compass beguiles a group of juveniles who must have been singularly gullible even for those early days by describing in mysterious and alien-sounding terms the commonest home objects, such as coals, cheese, butter, and so on.
No sooner was this the case, than Chariclea abandoned Dinias, and went off in pursuit of a certain golden youth of Crete, irresistible as he, and not less gullible. He swallowed his first feelings of embarrassment, and made a clean breast of it all: his love, his ruin, his mistress's disdain, his Cretan rival; and ended by protesting that without Chariclea he could not live.
It is true that swindles still happen in the City, but their number is trivial compared with the volume of the public's money that is handled and invested. It is only in the by-ways of finance and in the gutters of City journalism that the traps are laid for the greedy and gullible public, and if the public walks in, it has itself to blame.
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