"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."

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"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."

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"Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility."

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"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."

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