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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes: Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
         

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.


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