"How well they're off"

[Wilson Gray]

The kind of poor grammar up with which one ought not to have to put!


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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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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