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About the only difference between the poor and
the ritch, is this, the poor suffer mizery, while the
ritch hav tu enjoy it.

“Bee yee as wize as a sarpint, and as harmlis as a
duve,” and then if a feller cums a fooling around
yure duve, yu kan set yure sarpint at him.

Rize arly, work hard, and late, live on what yu
kant sell, giv nothing awa, and if yu dont die ritch,
and go tu the devil, yu ma sue me for damages.

Marrin for love ma be a little risky, but it is so
honest, that God kant help but smile on it.

There is one thing I kant never forgit nor I hain
tried to, and that is, the fust time I kissed a gal.

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If I was asked, “what is the chief end of man
now a daze,” I should immegiatly repli, “10 per
cent.”

Yu may argy a bull Tarrier out ov a bone, but yu
kant argy a woman out ov her will.

Mi advise tu them who are about tu begin, in arnest,
the jurney ov life, is tu take their harte in one
hand and a club in the other.

The biggest glutton I ever herd tell ov, was the
feller out in Indianny, who eat a pair ov twin lams
for brekfast, and then chased the ole yew three miles
and a haf.

The peacock has one ov the most butifullest tails
in the world, but i tak notis he dont drag it on the
ground when he walks out.

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