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So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

— George Canning Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.

And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.

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No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm!

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