We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.
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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
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It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.
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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indianan early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them.... The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of minefor I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.
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