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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

— James Russell Lowell

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  1. You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
  2. Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man; He's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf; But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,- He's ben …
  3. Ez fer war, I call it murder- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that.
  4. A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
  5. Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can't write, can surely review.
  6. I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An' in the traces lead 'em.
  7. For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis odd He leaves never a doorway to get in a god.
  8. I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

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Topics in this quote

  • life
  • ambition
  • glory
  • hardship

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