He
has only to eat his fill to sink.
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What a gas lamp is to a moth, the same is a rose diamond to a
woman--neither see the danger till they are dead.
* * * * *
In olden times Sodom and Gomorrah swallowed up the wicked. In modern
times Chicago swallows up the good.
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Chinaman's soliloquy. "First come missionary, big prayers, little book.
Singee 'Peace on earth and good willee to all men.' Russian Bear swallow
Manchuria, French Eagle strippe off Yellow Jacket, Bille Emperor stealee
Peacock Feather, English Lion grabbe Pig Tail. Damme, hungry lion want
everything."
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Slander is more subtile than any microbe.
* * * * *
You cannot squander ten thousand a year and then balance the account by
thrusting a stale bun, dipped in charity soup, into a beggar's hand.
* * * * *
Lolling on a velvet cushion in a fashionable church will not be a valid
answer when you meet the poor girl 'beyond' whom you ground down to make
trousers for twenty cents a pair. You didn't do it? You wore the
trousers, it's all the same.
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