You're the only one that thinks we're so funny; look at your professor, he's older than you are, and we're good enough for him, but you're only a brat with the milk still in your nose and all you can prattle is 'ma' or 'mu,' you're only a clay pot, a piece of leather soaked in water, softer and slipperier, but none the better for that.

You've got more coin than we have, have you?
Then eat two breakfasts and two dinners a day.

I'd rather have my reputation than riches, for my part, and before I make an end of this--who ever dunned me twice?
In all the forty years I was in service, no one could tell whether I was free or a slave.

I was only a long-haired boy when I came to this colony and the town house was not built then.

I did my best to please my master and he was a digniferous and majestical gentleman whose nail-parings were worth more than your whole carcass.