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A country without bordels is like a house without bathrooms.
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed ...
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire bur ...
You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave:
Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound
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When, like a running grave, time tracks you down,
Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs,
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A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.
Spring is like a perhaps hand
The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
There came a Wind like a Bugle--
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