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"I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers."
"If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family."
"You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?"
"I'm too old to do things by half"
"I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?"
"The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry."
"The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles."
"When he beat my mother it made me so mad."
