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  1. Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem - for purely religious purposes, of course - to know more about iniquity than the un…
  2. And oft-times cometh our wise Lord God, master of every trade, And tells them tales of His daily toil, of Edens newly made; And they rise t…
  3. Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sis…
  4. 'What are the bugles blowin' for?' said Files-on-Parade. 'To turn you out, to turn you out', the Colour-Sergeant said.
  5. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!
  6. They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away, An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.
  7. It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
  8. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our …

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