Commodore Marlin: My friend, I ask you a plain civil question; will you give me a plain, civil answer?
Sam Slick: Thinks to myself, Commodore, the question is civil enough, but you ain't civil, and your manner ain't civil. (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

Commodore Marlin: My friend, I ask you a plain civil question; will you give me a plain, civil answer? Sam Slick: Thinks to myself, Commodore, the question is civil enough, but you ain't civil, and your manner ain't civil.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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