"I say the very things that make the greatest Stir An' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur."
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Things that did n't occur, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Sam Walter Foss
Sam Walter Foss (June 19, 1858 β February 26, 1911) was a librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American.
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