A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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l would not from thee.
Cressida; Night hath been too brief.

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Troylis: be shrew the witch with
venomous..."

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Oh, that ain't even English!
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lt is too. Shakespeare wrote the
best English of anybody.

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All right, you tell me what it means,
you're so smart.

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l didn't say l know what it means. l
said l liked it.

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Thall do.
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okay, but l bet you don't know what
it means either.

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Maybe not, but l do know is good
for you.

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"...be shrew the witch with venomous
white..."

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She don't know what it means, Mom
don't know what it means,

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Grandma can't even read, and gosh
knows, l don't know what it...

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Mama, l can't read if he...
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Just wasting time every night
reading stuff

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nobody knows what is all about.
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Now listen.
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Your Aunt Sissy brought that bible
all the way from Sheepshead Bay.

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And your Papa blew in all his tips
one time on that Shakespeare,

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cause Grandma said they was the
greatest books and you should read

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from them every night. So,
you ain't gonna waste 'em.

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l don't know, sometimes it does seem
kind of foolish.

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But it might get you somewhere.
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Might even get you a job someday.
Who can tell?

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This reading will not stop.
l say this thing.

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To this new land, your grandfather
and l came, very long ago now.

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Because we heard that here is
something very good.

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Hard we worked. Very hard.
But we could not find this thing.

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For a long time, l do not understand.
And then l know.

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When l am old, l know.
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ln that old country, a child can
rise no higher

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than his father's state.
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But here, in this place, each one is
free to go

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as far as he's good to
make of himself.

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This way, the child can be better
than their parent

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and this is the true way
that things grow better.

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And this has to do something with
the learning,

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which is here free to all people.
l who am old, missed these things.

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My children missed these things.

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