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The private ownership of land is crystalized in the question "Is the
unborn child an heir or a bastard?"
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Love of the artistic does not account for the crookedness of men, though
the curve is the only true line of beauty.
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Sly women walk where blunt men fall.
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The stench of corruption is fragrant to the lobbyist.
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A shrivelled soul may hide in a bishop's paunch.
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A slippery friend is more dangerous than thin ice.
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The kangaroo and the miser carry all they love in a pouch.
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You cannot staunch a bleeding wound with a memory or a promise.
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Marriage is a covenant which few women refuse and many revoke.
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Emotion in woman is the locomotive--wisdom, the cow-catcher.
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A misfit policy is as dangerous to a statesman as a misfit dress to a
woman.
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The sting of a bee is not the less to be dreaded because the bee makes
honey.
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