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Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.
Joel Chandler Harris
Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.
Joel Chandler Harris
Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.
Joel Chandler Harris
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes.
Joel Chandler Harris
Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.
Joel Chandler Harris
Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im.
Joel Chandler Harris
I am in the prime of my senility.
Joel Chandler Harris
I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children some young and fresh and some wearing the friendly marks of age. But all children at heart and not an unfriendly face among them. And while I'm trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest saying you have made some of us happy. And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to bow silently and turn away and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best.
Joel Chandler Harris
Brer Fox, he lay low.
Joel Chandler Harris
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
Joel Chandler Harris
Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?
Joel Chandler Harris