I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
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All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what is more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with the judges.
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