Bill McNair

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It seems to be the rule of this world.  Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want. Married men have wives, and don’t seem to want them; and young single fellows cry out that they can’t get them.  Poor people who can hardly keep themselves have eight hearty children.  Rich old couples, with no one to leave their money to, die childless. Then there are girls with lovers.  The girls that have lovers never want them.  They say they would rather be without them, that they bother them, and why don’t they go and make love to Miss Smith and Miss Brown, who are plain ...more
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog): Illustrated, 1889 edition
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