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Looking back at our current Administration, how many people get that "If I knewn then, what I know now" feeling about him?
Obama's Closing Ad: I Will Take Country In Fundamentally New Direction 2009
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'Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber,' Indeed, my Lord, I never knewn the consolation that's in
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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"Eurycles was a Greek who lived ages ago - but he happened to be a very well-knewn Greek, because he had a peculiar gift - he was a ventriloquist!
The Mystery of the Strange Bundle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952
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"So it’s a consate I have that Missis Finn was not a haporth worse nor the rest o’ thim, an’ that’s phat me grandfather said too, that had been marr’d twict, an’ so knewn phat he was talkin’ about.
Irish Wonders 1878
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Begob, it’s my belafe, savin’ yer prisence, that there’s not the differ av a cowld pitaty bechune thim all whin it’s a queshtion av marryin’ wan o’ thim, an’ if the whole worruld knewn that same, its few hurted heads there’d be along o’ the wimmin.
Irish Wonders 1878
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"Mind ye now, it’s my consate from phat he said, that the king wasn’t consarned much about Riley, fur he knewn that he cud get more Irishmen whin he wanted thim, but phat he meant to say was that if the Pooka tuk to horse-stalin’, he’d be ruinated entirely, so he would, for where ’ud he get another white mare?
Irish Wonders 1878
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But sorra a wink o’ shlape crassed the eyes av wan o’ the young Kings, fur the joy that was in the heart o’ thim, bekase aitch knewn he’d get the Princess.
Irish Wonders 1878
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Faith, I know that well too, for I married two o’ them an’ larned a deal too afther doin’ it, an’ axin’ yer pardon, it’s my belafe that if min knewn as much before marryin’ as afther, bedad, the owld maid population
Irish Wonders 1878
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’Presince o’ God be about me,’ says I, for I knewn the inchantmint wasn’t right, no more I oughtn’t to be at it, but the hare was skairt like meself an’ run, an’ I found the shnail an’ run too wid the shweat pourin’ aff me face in shtrames.
Irish Wonders 1878
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If he’d knewn the ground was holy, he’d never dared to set fut an it, fur ye see, if ye can ketch the divil an holy ground where he’s no bizness, ye’ve got him fast an’ tight an’ can pull him in when ye plaze.
Irish Wonders 1878
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