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Marley was dead: to begin with.
-Charles Dickens
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Marley Was Dead: To Begin With.

Charles Dickens
Marley was dead: to begin with.
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Marley was dead, to begin with. there is no doubt whatever about that. the register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. scrooge signed it. and scrooge's name was good upon 'change for anything he chose to put his hand to. old marley was as dead as a door-nail.
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Old marley was as dead as a doornail. mind! i don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. i might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. but the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the country's done for. you will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that marley was as dead as a doornail.
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I have this dog named marley, and it is a kind of love i had never known. i have a hard time believing marley did not come from my body. i know that sounds insane, but i feel that connected to her. she made me realize i wanted to adopt children.
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Then i dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if i could telegraph a message through our two skulls, from my brain to his. i wanted to make him understand some things. you know all that stuff we’ve always said about you?” i whispered. “what a total pain you are? don’t believe it. don’t believe it for a minute, marley.” he needed to know that, and something more, too. there was something i had never told him, that no one ever had. i wanted him to hear it before he went. marley,” i said. “you are a great dog.
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I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, lenny kravitz is not black. bob marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played bob marley.
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To show you how radical i am, i want carjackers dead. i want rapists dead. i want burglars dead. i want child molesters dead. i want the bad guys dead. no court case. no parole. no early release. i want 'em dead. get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em.
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