Distant water won’t quench your immediate thirst.
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Roses grow where a teacher hits.Traditional
Sometimes I go about pitying myself And all the while I am being carried across the sky By beautiful clouds.
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You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can lose one in a hour.
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The mind of man is the root of both bondage and release.
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He was a how thinker, not an if thinker.
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May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.
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