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... hate proverbs : they are vulgar , fusty , musty , old sayings . ( Flings out of the room . ) DOUBT . Ay , ay ; there is nothing certain , but death and the taxes . Exit . THE UNCLE . THE UNCLE . CHARACTERS . UNCLE NIECE 14 THE WILL .
... hate proverbs : they are vulgar , fusty , musty , old sayings . ( Flings out of the room . ) DOUBT . Ay , ay ; there is nothing certain , but death and the taxes . Exit . THE UNCLE . THE UNCLE . CHARACTERS . UNCLE NIECE 14 THE WILL .
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... and a walnut - tree , A woman , The more you beat them , the better they'll be . " NIECE . Fie , uncle , to use such horrid musty old proverbs . The new saying is UNCLE . I hate new sayings and new ways What 18 THE UNCLE .
... and a walnut - tree , A woman , The more you beat them , the better they'll be . " NIECE . Fie , uncle , to use such horrid musty old proverbs . The new saying is UNCLE . I hate new sayings and new ways What 18 THE UNCLE .
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Ellen Pickering. UNCLE . I hate new sayings and new ways What are they but a fiz , a fuss , and a blow up and the brains of those who used them , if they ever had any , flying over the country like thistle down . NIECE . You have such ...
Ellen Pickering. UNCLE . I hate new sayings and new ways What are they but a fiz , a fuss , and a blow up and the brains of those who used them , if they ever had any , flying over the country like thistle down . NIECE . You have such ...
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... hate men with great red faces like an ill - painted fiery sun . Every one else thinks Mr. Selby very interesting . UNCLE . Oh , yes ! as interesting as a Miss in her teens - a perfect Miss Molly . NIECE , ( with a toss of the head ...
... hate men with great red faces like an ill - painted fiery sun . Every one else thinks Mr. Selby very interesting . UNCLE . Oh , yes ! as interesting as a Miss in her teens - a perfect Miss Molly . NIECE , ( with a toss of the head ...
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... hate your quiet men . An oaf , a dolt , an idiot ! I have been in a fever from the moment Ruffle died , and left us joint guardians to his children . There now , there is the clock chiming the half - hour , and the wedding was to have ...
... hate your quiet men . An oaf , a dolt , an idiot ! I have been in a fever from the moment Ruffle died , and left us joint guardians to his children . There now , there is the clock chiming the half - hour , and the wedding was to have ...
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Page 18 - I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
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