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As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

— Charles Portis True Grit (1968)

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If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

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I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.

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