Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Feels the same comfort while his acrid words Turn the sweet milk of kindness into curds.
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There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian, in one of his flashing moments 'Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.' To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men 'Good Americans when they die go to Paris.'
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I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
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