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“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bbd203f26dcb809e9d69df0c4591e4682f8189de3f1b68a271c100be05a44606
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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