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Senator,” said I, “the terms are as cheap as dirt.
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Watterson critiques the low price being offered in a political negotiation, using a metaphor to emphasize his point.
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The world—the whole trend of modern thought—was set against slavery.
But, I tell you what, if you’ll put up five hundred dollars I’ll put up five hundred more, we’ll fetch our chap across and set him in as a claimant, and, my word for it, Kenealy’s fat boy won’t be a marker to him!
O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!
The great man listened and replied: “I have noticed you scattering your means round here pretty freely but you haven’t said ‘turkey’ to me.
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