"So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree"

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Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.18, Applewood Books

Will Carleton

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“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”
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“Manâ€”every manâ€”is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”
“A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.”

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