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• O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
  -- W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Ninetee...
• If we were meant to fly, we wouldn't keep losing our luggage.
• If we were meant to fly, we wouldn't keep losing our luggage.
• We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with. -- Redd Foxx
• We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves.
  -- Crazy Jimmy...
• Maybe we were meant to fight our way through.
• We were so poor we used to use a substitute for margarine .
  .. In school I took algebra, history, and overcoats ....