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Well, I've got news for you, cheater, your fancy book-learnin' won't help you here!
Mega Buzz: NCIS' Mystery Photo, More Ned on Thrones and Castle's New Boss 2011
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Everyone else stays out there in the wide open spaces and proclaims that they don't want to be confused by all that book-learnin.
Tough nuts to crack Tom Toles 2011
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Well, I've got news for you, cheater, your fancy book-learnin' won't help you here!
Mega Buzz: NCIS' Mystery Photo, More Ned on Thrones and Castle's New Boss 2011
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We will live, and grow, and achieve on our own terms — as we have since the days of slavery when “book-learnin '” was effectively outlawed for the dusky free-labor underclass.
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We will live, and grow, and achieve on our own terms — as we have since the days of slavery when “book-learnin '” was effectively outlawed for the dusky free-labor underclass.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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I apologize for being a poli-sci terminological pendant (but I have to put all that historical book-learnin 'to use sometime, right?).
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It just doesn't involve any of that fancy-pants sissy book-learnin', right?
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Dumb Fucks: Here's the deal Idiot America, you've got a little over two months to do some fancy book-learnin '.
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The moderates, the reasonable people, the intelligent ones who are fond of book-learnin ', and those free of mental defect bolted from the GOP.
David A. Love: Health Care Reform Is America's Anti-Theft Device 2009
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And I guess it's good news for anyone who wants to be president but doesn't want to go through all of that hard work and fancy book-learnin 'to get there.
Bob Cesca: Sarah Six-pack Needs To Put Country First by Stepping Down 2008
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