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It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.
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On his later respectability.
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Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.

 

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