I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.
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Love, then, hath every bliss in store 'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more. Each other every wish they give Not to know love is not to live.John Gay
All in the Downs the fleet was moored, The streamers waving in the wind, When black-eyed Susan came aboard.
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A fox may steal your hens, sir .... If lawyers hand is feed, sir He steals your whole estate.
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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women, to believe them
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I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
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