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Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrer [sic] money to do it with.

— Artemus Ward

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The sun has a right to "set" where it wants to, and so, I may add, has a hen.

My wife is one of the best wimin on this continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb, with mint sauce.

The female woman is one of the greatest institooshuns of which this land can boste.

Artemus Ward, His Book (1862)

Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head.

They cherish his mem'ry, and them as sell picturs of his birthplace, etc., make it prof'tible cherishin' it.

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