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He could whip his weight in wildcats.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonology and magic, and then a scoffer at …

I feel a sort of yearnin' 'nd a chokin' in my throat When I think of Red Hoss Mountain 'nd of Casey's tabble dote!

It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.

Oh, you who've been a-fishing will indorse me when I say That it always is the biggest fish you catch that gets away!