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[Wade: Day I die, Byron, I'm gettin' sprung from hell. ] I might think that too, if I came from the seed of a drunk gravedigger, and the rancid womb of a whore.
— Who: Byron McElroy
— Note: McElroy has this exchange with Ben Wade before the prisoner overpowers him and throws him over a cliff to his death for insulting Wade's mother.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
— Douglas Jerrold, Jerrold's Wit, "Ugly Trades".
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas William Jerrold— Ugly Trades, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
