“Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.”
Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer
Source: Maybe, Maybe Not
“It ain't justice, Richard, but politics, and like all politics it ain't pretty, but well done it can work wonders.”
Major Michael Hogan, p. 172
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)
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Bok IV, Ch. 4
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“It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now”
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Compare: "It ain't no use to sit and sigh now, darlin." Paul Clayton, Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone).
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“Well, no offense:
Thar ain't no sense
In gittin' riled.”
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Complete Poetical Works, III. IN DIALECT, Jim.