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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Best Count Death Humanity Kind Law Man Nature
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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Happiness Morning Nature Wind
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Hands Right True Unity
Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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Play Red Rose
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Be Yourself God Myself Personality
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Integrity Meaning Mindset Performance

The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

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