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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
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Payday came and with it beer.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
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If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.
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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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