Look out how we use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.
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What is there left, Bob?
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I am the cause of the Sphinx,
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Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
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Some toil and toil, believing,
Looking now and again on my face,
Catching a vital, olden glory.
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