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Preeching the gospel for nothin, is easy enuff,
but preeching it fur 5 thousand a yere, and hav it
sute, is anuther thing entirely.

A ded traitor makes a sweete korps.

Matches, ma be made in heavin, but tha ar ginerally
sold down here.

Yu ma make a whissel out ov a pig's tale, but if
you du, you'll find you've spilte a verry worthy tale,
and got a devilish poor whissel.

I consait thare is this difference between bashfullness,
and modesta, the one soon wares oph, the other
never dus.

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A vartuous, and ekonomikal, and knooing, and
butiful woman is — is, all that kan be sed on the
subjec.

Fitckshun is a kind ov haf wa hous, betwen the
temples ov Truth and Fallshood, whare the good and
the bad meet tu lie a little.

Praing, and Charitee, ought tu be dun on the sli.

The moste intensely butiful scene i ever perused,
was a clene, fat, haf dressed baby, on the floor,
kicking up its little heels, and pounding a lookin
glass, and a gold watch together.

Munny is like promises, easier maid than kept.

The fules in this wurld make about as much trubble
as the wicked du.

Misfortin and twins hardly ever cum singly.

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