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Jim Thompson Quotes: You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.
         

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.


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I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.



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I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.



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