I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive, said Alan ap… - John Collier

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I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive, said Alan apprehensively. Oh, dear, no, said the old man. It would be no good charging you that sort of price for a love potion, for example. Young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. Otherwise they would not need a love potion.

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John Collier (3 May 1901 – 6 April 1980) was a British-born writer and screenwriter best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Alternative Names: John Henry Noyes Collier

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