And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
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Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth O God O Montreal.Samuel Butler
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For what is worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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Ay me what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron.
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