Artemus Ward - Man Quotes

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G. Washington was about the best man this country ever sot eyes on. He was a clear-heded, warm-hearted, and stiddy goin man. He never slopt over! The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to slop over! … Washington never slopt over. That wasn't George's stile. He luved his country dearly. He wasn't after the spiles [spoils]. He was a human angil in a 3 kornered hat and knee britches.

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... their eyes sparkled like diminds, their cheeks was like roses, and they was charmin enuff to make a man throw stuns at his granmother, if they axed him to.

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He is dreadfully married. "He's the most married man I ever saw in my life."

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