Maine is _down_ east of Massachusetts.

[Wilson Gray]

Everyone's familiar with that one. I've just heard a Bostonian say
that he doesn't like to go to Rhode Island, even to see his
girlfriend, because

"There's nothing to do, _up_ there."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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