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But in fighting he was “a dandy.” The goody-goody philosophy of the namby-pamby takes an extreme and unreal view of life.
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Watterson critiques overly sentimental philosophies regarding conflict and life.
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I have put up my last dollar south of the Potomac.” Then I went to the King of the transcontinental railways.
I strolled down to the river and sat myself upon the brink, almost despairing—nigh heartbroken—when I began to feel an irresistible fascination about the swift-flowing stream.
What is to be,” says the predestinarian Mother Goose, “will be, though it never come to pass.
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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