“Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.”

— Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 10.

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“Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.”

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