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Prohibition is a frozen dream, real life a red-hot time.
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Inquisitiveness is but another name for the Auditor General.
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Capital account is a cavern wherein politicians hide their sins.
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The summer girl, in the biggest wind, is never blown away from a man.
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The editor writes most charmingly of country life in his easiest chair.
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Church choirs are always at sixes and sevens. One day of harmony and six
of discord.
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A young widow's sorrow for her husband is a phantom minnow--looks
genuine but hides the hook.
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While the bankrupt tradesman rides in his carriage, his honest
competitor is in the back yard sawing wood.
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The uglier a woman's face, the nearer to her chin is the hem of her
bathing skirt, no doubt to hide her blushes.
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The French are steadfast of purpose.
What purpose?
Changing the Ministry!
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English poet in the Soudan,--"We are carrying 'Sweetness and light' into
darkest Africa!"
Tommy,--"Yes, we let the light in with the Lee-Metford and the Egyptian
tax-collector will sweeten these coves later on.
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