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[E]ven a slight edge in ability can translate into enormous payoffs.

She hat haar as prown ash a pretzel,Her eyes vas himmel-plue, Und ven dey looket indo mine,Dey shplit mine heart in two.

Ven you shall make yet some moneys and go to Europe, you shall see.

It gif me a cholt, Matt, ven you saidt dose t'ings vas bearls, und I recollectioned vat vas saidt in der note about bearls.

I wish you could ha' heard how the women screamed, Sammy, ven they picked up the shepherd from underneath the table—Hollo!

Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation.'