Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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Tears were to me what glass beads are to African traders.
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Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave
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