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When the bait is more than the fish, 'tis time to stop fishing.

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Death don't see no difference 'tween the big house and the cabin.

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The rainbow might be better lookin' if 'twasn't such a cheap show.

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If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.

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Heaps of good cotton stocks get chopped up from association with the weeds.

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The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

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If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.

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We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.

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Occasionally a man with a right smart education can't find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.

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The squirrel can beat the rabbit climbing a tree, but then the rabbit makes the best stew that sort of equalizes the thing.

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