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I am a border ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me you have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the combination which makes the perfect man.
- speech "Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims," December 22, 1881

License plate topper from the Dave Thomson collection

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