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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour

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Variety is the soul of pleasure.

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He was almost there, when... Smash! Crash! Bash! He slid down and mashed into engine hash the little engine that almost could.

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I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

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I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

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The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne and Bridge)

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I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

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I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.

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It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan.

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Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

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Remote and ineffectual don.

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Money gives me pleasure all the time.

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Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

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The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces; They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose features they resembled; They laughed to see so many Lords And Ladies all assembled. The People in Between Looked underdone and harassed, And our of place and mean, And Horribly embarrassed.

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

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To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.

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The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,...

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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

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I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time.

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