“Kill? Who said anything about killing? I would kill him if he was here; but not her. When you want to get… — Mark Twain
“Kill? Who said anything about killing? I would kill him if he was here; but not her. When you want to get revenge on a woman you don’t kill her—bosh! you go for her looks. You slit her nostrils—you notch her ears like a sow!”
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