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As For What You're Calling Hard Luck -- Well, We Made New England Out Of It, That And Codfish.
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As for what you're calling hard luck -- well, we made New England out of
it, that and codfish.
-- Stephen Vincent Benet
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive. -- Stephen Vincent Bene
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