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Charles Portis Quotes: As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
         

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.


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