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Liars and brethren of the order Many years
The last speaker was Brother Jedediah Holcomb, who thus addressed the assemblage: "Most noble prevaricator of the Rocky Mountain division of Forty Liars, and brethren of the order: Many years ago, when I was a mere stripling, as it were, and just upon the verge of manhood, so to speak, I was sitting on the green grass south of Chicago, near where Drexel boulevard comes into South Park, thinking of my hard luck and wishing that my future might be more prosperous than my past.
— from Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye


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