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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: happened to win. They didn't take it very well. One of them said to the
anchor:
"Do you know why you pulled us over the line? "
"No."
"Because you had all the blackguards on your side of the line."
"Do you know why we had all the blackguards on our side of the line? "
inquired the American.
"No."
"Because we pulled you over the line."
In one of my anecdotes I used the term Sam Johnson to describe an
Englishman of a certain type. Dr. Samuel Johnson was a very marked
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