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"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."

Mary Todd Lincoln, American First Lady

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"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."

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"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."

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