Samuel Foote Quotes
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
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Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.
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Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.
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For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.
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Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.
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One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
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