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• We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves.
  -- Crazy Jimmy...
• If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane! -- Jimmy Buffe
• We were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone's food without paying for it.
  On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you....
• We were pretty good sharks ourselves once.
• When the well is dry, we know the worth of oil. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac
• We were so poor that we thought new clothes meant someone had died.
• We apply ourselves to perfection of That.
• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
  -- Blaise Pascal...
• We were so poor we used to use a substitute for margarine .
  .. In school I took algebra, history, and overcoats ....