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Peter: I'll bet there isn't a good piggy-back rider in your whole family. I never knew a rich man yet who could piggy-back ride.
Ellie: You're prejudiced.
Peter: You show me a good piggy-backer and I'll show you a real human. Now you take Abraham Lincoln, for instance. A natural piggy-backer.

Robert Riskin

Robert Riskin (1897–1955), U.S. screenwriter. Peter (Clark Gable), Ellie (Claudette Colbert), It Happened One Night, as he carries her over his shoulder across a stream (1934).

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