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Whenever I see my Friend I speak to him; but the expecter, the man with the ears, is not he.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

"Great expecter," says Thoreau; "great feller," says Sam Staples, "for talkin' big ... but his daughters is the gals though—always DOIN' somethin'."

From Essays Before a Sonata by Ives, Charles