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the other must expect knocks and
And it was not to curry favor, but from a sincere belief that the one child should be caressed and loved, while the other must expect knocks and blows, being 'nuffin' but a nigga.'
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

the old man exclaimed Keep a
Perhaps his face betrayed his feelings, for the old man exclaimed: "Keep a stiff upper lip, lad, and it'll all come out well.
— from Darry the Life Saver; Or, The Heroes of the Coast by Frank V. Webster

the ordinary man ever knows and
To have lived through the thirty years of the richest experience the ordinary man ever knows and still have remained on precisely the same spot as to spiritual things struck me then as a woeful confession.
— from The Conquest of Fear by Basil King

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