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Updated: May 19, 2025

'Well, oh, well, says I, 'times has changed since I was a boy, I says. 'Put thim through their exercises, says I. 'Tommy, says I, 'spell cat, I says. 'Go to th' divvle, says th' cheerub. 'Very smartly answered, says Mary Ellen. 'Ye shud not ask thim to spell, she says. 'They don't larn that till they get to colledge, she says, 'an'' she says, 'sometimes not even thin, she says.

Finley Peter Dunne - Mr. Dooley's Philosophy