Joel Chandler Harris

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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
- Joel Chandler Harris
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I am in the prime of my senility.
- Joel Chandler Harris
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Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Writing
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I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Foxes
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People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Writing
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Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Jugs
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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
Collection: Couple
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Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Patches
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When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Specks
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Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Roosters
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Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Tired
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Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.
- Joel Chandler Harris
Collection: Bird